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FAMOUS SONGS
a tenor named Nelson Kneas from a German melody fifty years ago.
" Don't you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt, Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown ; Who wept with delight when you gave her a smile, And trembled with fear at your frown?"
Other songs, sung by minstrel and other troupes, that swept through the country like a cyclone, were " Darling Nelly Gray" and " O Susanna," both depicting the suffering of slave lovers.
" Oh ! my poor Nellie Gray, They have taken you away, And I'll never see my darling any more,"
was heard on every side and voiced by all sorts of singers. " O Susanna" was more in the comic vein, and the request, " Don't you cry for me" was based on the consoling fact that "I've come from Alabama with my banjo on my knee." " Uncle Ned," that curious - old nigger we all knew in our youth, was of earlier growth, and may still be met with in old-fashioned places occasionally. Dan Emmett's "Dixie" and Harrington's "Swanee River" (which has been revived again quite recently in London) have proved the most prominent and
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