Negro Melodies Plantation Pieces, Camp Meeting Songs and Poems &c

A collection of lyrics for 180+ songs.

By William C Blades, Published By Richard C Badger Boston, Circa 1921

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Negro Melodies Plantation Pieces, Camp Meeting Songs and Poems &c, Index Page
Deduct 100 from the numbers show to get the original page numbers from the book.
Title Page
Copyright Notice
CONTENTS
CONTENTS
CONTENTS
CONTENTS
CONTENTS
The Old Shore Road - 0113
Page - 0114
Page - 0115
Ring that Bell, What You Gwine to Do? - 0116
Send that Chariot Down - 0117
On the Road to Charleston - 0118
Where the Cotton Used to Grow - 0119
Rabbit in the Pot - 0120
The Old Steamboat - 0121
Lily Snowdrop, The Minstrel Man - 0122
Mistah Jones - 0123
Old Jim Crow - 0124
That's Why I Want to Go There - 0125
Fiddlin' Joe - 0126
Bury Mah Banjo by Mah Side - 0127
The Old Colored Minister - 0128
Way Down South in Georgia - 0129
The Chariot Ford - 0130
The White Angels - 0131
Bullfrog Pone, The Nigger and the Mule - 0132
The Wild-Eyed Coon - 0133
Hard Times Come Again No More, Jonah and the Whale - 0134
The Placard, Nigger Gin - 0135
The Darky, That Houn' Dawg, Totin' Along - 0136
Oh, Lord, Not Me 5, Ante-Bellum - 0137
The Cake Walk - 0138
Southern Lullaby - 0139
Pompey's Plea, Then You'll Come Back to Dixie - 0140
Cornfields - 0141
Befo' de Wah - 0142
What Foh I Dunno - 0143
Serenade, Dinah - 0144
Dinah Mine - 0145
Mandy's Party - 0146
Aunt Jemima - 0147
Shufflin' Feet, When I Get Over the River - 0148
Uncle Tom - 0149
Folk Song - 0150
The Poor White Man - 0151
Possum Pie, The Grinning Nigger Man - 0152
I'm There - 0153
The Darky's Prayer - 0154
Old Black Joe - 0155
We'll All Go to Heaven When We Die - 0156
Page - 0157
When the Lord Say Come - 0158
The Darky Drum and Fife Corps - 0159
While Jordan's in the Way, Canaan - 0160
Push Dem Clouds Away - 0161
Christmas am a Comin' - 0162
The Breakdown - 0163
Dem Shoes, The Old Mule's Tail - 0164
"The Good, Good News" - 0165
The Song of David, Something for the Blues - 0166
Page - 0167
Dixie Far Away, Refrains - 0168
Glory - 0169
Satan and the Sheep - 0170
Hot Corn - 0171
When You Get Back to Dixie - 0172
The Old Black Mule - 0173
Page - 0174
Spindles - 0175
Lickin' the Goat - 0176
Gracious How that Chile Done Grow, Lamenting the Corn - 0177
"Mammy, I Love You" - 0178
The Gentlemen of the Bones - 0179
The Mississippi - 0180
Angel, Sound that Trump, Don't You Want to Go Along - 0181
The Golden Stair - 0182
Down upon the Levee - 0183
Ragtime - 0184
Rastus Johnson's Idyl to His Mule - 0185
Page - 0186
Doing the Best He Can, When the Coons All Come Around - 0187
Glory! Hallelujah! - 0188
Mandy, The Nigger - 0189
A Real Good Time - 0190
Take That Fiddle Along - 0191
Gwine Away for Christmas - 0192
The Parson's Sermon - 0193
The Cotton Fields of Georgia - 0194
Right Away - 0195
The Fiery Furnace - 0196
Pickaninny Pompey - 0197
Rastus Johnson, The Pickaninny Band - 0198
That Old Fly - 0199
The Liability, The Menu - 0200
Balm of Gilead, The Alligator - 0201
The Banjo, Brush Dem Tears Away - 0202
When the Golden Trumpets Sound, Rastus' Fate 7 - 0203
The Whang-doodle Band - 0204
Rastus and His Banjo - 0205
Massa's Gone Away, Slavery Days - 0206
Melon Time in Georgia - 0207
The Steamboat Ride - 0208
The Orders - 0209
My Ruby Red Rose - 0210
Dixie So Dear - 0211
My Pretty Creole Belle - 0212
Foah O'Clock in the Morning - 0213
Page - 0214
If Chickens Were Crows - 0215
Chickens, The Eagle and the Rooster - 0216
Down in Georgia - 0217
Page - 0218
Juba, Gwine to the Ball - 0219
Gwine to See My Gal - 0220
Niggering Around, The Hornet and the Bee - 0221
Page - 0222
The Two Masters - 0223
Haul that Woodpile Down - 0224
No Moon To-night . - 0225
"Good Bye, Liza Jane" - 0226
Did You See Me - 0227
The Chariot Man - 0228
When I Get There That Day - 0229
Keep that Chariot Rolling - 0230
Old John Brown - 0231
Down on the Old Plantation - 0232
The Mule - 0233
Living High - 0234
Refrains, Dem Golden Bells - 0235
Sinia, The Hallelujah Train - 0236
Where is My Dinah? - 0237
Possum Juice - 0238
Come Along, Chillun, "The Promis' Lan," - 0239
What Are You Doing Up There? - 0240
"Elijah, Ring that Bell" - 0241
Pharaoh, All Right, Moses, I'll Be There" - 0242
Forty Acres and a Mule - 0243
Caroline - 0244
The Judgment Morn, The Darkies' Jubilee - 0245
"Roll on, Jordan, Roll" - 0246
Dixie Darky Land - 0247
When the Sun Goes Down - 0248
Dinah, Come with Me, My Little Black Eyed Chloe - 0249
Where the Woodbine Grows - 0250
Mandy's Soliloquy - 0251
The Old Banjo - 0252
Songs of Dixie, A Plaintive Melody - 0253
The Sunflower - 0254
Hoe Cake Song - 0255
The Weddin' Gown - 0256
The Catfish Fry - 0257
When Massa Blows that Horn - 0258
The Roosting Roosters - 0259
The Golden Crown - 0260
When the Tide Turns Round, The Hoe Down - 0261
The Roustabout - 0262
When the Wash am Out - 0263
Diamonds - 0264
The Old Mewl, Moonlight - 0265
The Sun Do Move - 0266
The Colored Children's Catechism - 0267
When the Steamboat Comes Along - 0268