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03 May 02 - 08:33 AM (#703538) Subject: Dear Old Uncle Ned (not Stephen Foster) From: Tiger Searching for a friend who sent me this note. I have had no luck. Do any of you 'catters recognize it? Thanks......Tiger (note follows) ---------------------------- I've been trying to find the words to an old song for my mothers friend (a very lovely 75 year old gentleman). He thought the song was called "Dear Old Uncle Ned" but you sent me the words to that song and it's not the right one. I was hopeing that if i told you the words of the song that he can remember you might be able to help me, (i'm getting desperate). This is what he remembers, with a line missing here and there.
Sat a darkie old and gray When a stranger passing by approached and said Bless your heart is that you Dear Old Uncle Ned Yes that's me massa Harry How's old Mrs and Black Cole And tell me are my picininnys alive or dead |
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04 May 02 - 06:54 AM (#704154) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dear Old Uncle Ned (not Stephen Foster) From: masato sakurai No luck with this song, but there're several "Uncle Ned" songs other than Foster in Newman I. White, American Negro Folk-Songs (pp. 164-166) and in Thomas Talley's Negro Folk Rhymes (newly ed. by Wolfe, pp. 53-54). ~Masato |
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04 May 02 - 09:43 AM (#704187) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dear Old Uncle Ned (not Stephen Foster) From: Tiger Hi, Masato..... Did you actually check those books against my song snippet, or are they references that need to be looked up? |
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04 May 02 - 10:10 AM (#704199) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dear Old Uncle Ned (not Stephen Foster) From: masato sakurai Tiger, I did check them up. They (all of them are titled "Uncle Ned") are different songs. ~Masato |
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04 May 02 - 11:28 AM (#704232) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dear Old Uncle Ned (not Stephen Foster) From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) Not found in Christy's Nigga Songster (only the usual Old Ned derived from Foster). I would guess that the song is from near 1890 from the verse provided. |
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09 May 02 - 06:13 PM (#707692) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dear Old Uncle Ned (not Stephen Foster) From: Tiger refresh |
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28 May 02 - 12:06 PM (#718816) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dear Old Uncle Ned (not Stephen Foster) From: Tiger refresh |
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11 Jun 02 - 09:15 AM (#727481) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dear Old Uncle Ned (not Stephen Foster) From: Tiger refresh, one last time |
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11 Jun 02 - 08:07 PM (#727985) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dear Old Uncle Ned (not Stephen Foster) From: masato sakurai Tiger,I'm still looking for it, without success. ~Masato |
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11 Jun 02 - 10:30 PM (#728042) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dear Old Uncle Ned (not Stephen Foster) From: wysiwyg Tiger, suggest you PM Mudcatter Butch. He seems to have some expertise in this area. ~S~ |