Research Catalog

Title

Christy's plantation melodies / published under the authority of E. P. Christy, originator of Ethiopian minstrelsy and the first to harmonize Negro melodies.

Publication

• Philadelphia (No. 8 South Sixth Street) : Fisher & Brother, 1851-[1856]
• ©1851

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Details

Additional Authors

Christy, Edwin Pearce, 1815-1862

Description

5 volumes bound as 1 (ix, 71, 71, 70, 72, 70, [6] pages) : frontispiece, portrait; 15 cm

Alternative Title

Plantation melodies

Subjects

• Plantation life > Songs and music
• African Americans > Songs and music > Texts
• Song texts
• Songsters
• Ballads, English > United States > Texts
• Songs, English > United States > Texts
• Minstrel shows

Genre/Form

• Songsters.
• Song texts.

Note

• Song texts; without music.
• Reissue in one volume of Christy's plantation melodies no. 1-5, preceded by "Triumphant legal decision" (p. v-ix). Each no. separately paged. Tables of contents for each volume in back.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available on microform

Processing Action (note)

• Microfilmed;

Contents

• No. 1. Old folks at home -- Oh! Boys, carry me 'long -- Nellie Bly -- Way down in Ca-i-ro -- Dolcy Jones -- Ring, ring de banjo! -- My brodder gum -- Camptown races, or gwin to run all night -- De days when I was young -- Greeting to a merry key - not Jenny Lind's -- Old aunty brown -- Medley song -- De last ob de caggages -- Julius from Kentucky -- Rosa Bell -- Parody [Tune: On old Long Island's sea-girt shore] -- Nelly was a lady -- Julius' Bride -- Ginger's wedding -- Mary Blane -- Witching Dianah Crow -- Nancy Tease -- Parody [Tune: The phantom chorus] -- Fi - hi - hi! -- Katy Dean -- Uncle Ned -- Old Uncle Edward -- Gone to Alabama -- Emma snow -- Gum tree canoe -- The virginia rose-bud, or the lost child -- Emma Dale -- Stop dat knocking -- Bowery gals -- The haunted well -- I wish I was in Ole Verginny -- Rosa dear -- I'm off for Charleston -- Poor aunt Dinah -- Come to de ole gum tree -- Oh come, darkies, come -- Massa sound is sleeping -- Walk in the parlour -- Dolly day -- Angelina Baker -- Melinda May -- Kate Loraine -- She sleeps in the grave -- The darkey's serenade -- Joe ob Tennessee -- Julia Green -- Lynchburg town -- Negro's seven ages-not Shakespeare's.
• No. 2. Eulalie -- Massa's in the cold ground -- Ella Ree -- I'll throw myself away -- The old folks are gone -- What shall this darkey do? -- Oh! Lemuel! -- Hither we come -- Farewell, my Lilly dear -- Ding, dong! Or, Th darkies' wedding -- Julius's trip to the World's Fair -- Good old Dinah -- Uncle Tom's gone to rest -- Old Ned -- The old corn mill -- Katy darling -- 'Tilda Horn -- Come, darkies, come -- Hush-a-bye, baby -- The belle of Winyaw Bay -- Poor foolish Joe -- Poor old Joe -- The rose of Baltimore -- The dark' who 'totes' the target -- The old log hut at home -- Aunt Dinah Roe -- Night funeral of a slave -- Pompey's grave -- Seraphina Tell -- Sweep-oh refrain -- The darkey sleighing party -- Dinah's wedding-day -- The darkey blackberrying party -- Uncle Gabriel, the darkey general -- Happy are we, darkies so gay -- Would I were a boy again -- Santee's river side -- Oh, dearest Dine -- The coon-hunter's bride -- My Lucy so fair -- Lizzy Lee -- The yellow rose of Texas -- Sarah Day -- We'll have a little dance to-night, boys -- Nelly Bell -- Singing darkey of the Ohio -- The old Virginia state -- Jenny Lyle -- The girl from the south -- Shining moon -- The old jawbone -- The heart-broken darkey -- Carry me back to old Virginia's shore -- Sucky Lane -- Nancy Shore -- Oh, Dinah dear -- Old Virginia never tire -- Susan Rayne -- The M.P.'s musical invitation -- See, darkies, see.
• No. 3. My old Kentucky home, good-night -- Good old Jeff -- Old dog Tray -- I long for my home in Kentuck' -- Lily Dale -- The other side of Jordan -- Etty Way, or Good-bye, boys -- Sweet Lilla Brown -- She's black, but that's no matter -- Ho! Ho! For Ginger Bluff -- Will no yaller gal marry me? -- Fare you well -- Poor old Jessy -- Take me home -- Pompey's trip to New York Public Library The old churchyard -- Sally Primer -- My childhood's happy home -- Emma Gray -- Katy Darling's farewell to Dermot -- Old Jumbo Gum, my Joe -- Amy Snow is sleeping -- The fancy coloured ball -- Wait for the wagon -- The yaller gal with the josey on -- The jolly old crow -- The rose of Alabama -- Rosa Lee, or Don't be foolish, Joe -- Our hut on the old plantation -- The dandy Broadway swell -- Dine and Jone -- Dearest Mae -- The old cottage clock -- Coloured fugitive's lament -- Linda's gone to Baltimore -- Here goes the corn -- Poor Lizzie Lee -- Old Sambo's lament -- List thee, my Dinah -- Mary Dean -- The old banjo -- Susey Saul -- My lovely Kate -- Poor Juba -- Flora May -- Boston Kate -- The joys of July Four -- Sally Gates -- Serephena Tell -- The boot-black's soliloquy -- Florence Lee -- 'Way down in Louisiana -- Oh hail! Darkies, hail! -- Banks of Susquehannah -- Dinah Green -- Dandy Jim's lament -- My valley home, good-bye -- We are coming, sister Mary -- Old times come again -- Jim Brown's address to his sogers.
• No. 4. Ellen Bayne – Down the river, down the Ohio – Nelly Dean, farewell – Jenny, the pride of the mill – I’m coming, Julia June – Dream of home – I’m talking in my sleep – My Dinah dear – Minny Glover – Ben Hollins – I cannot call her mother – Lilly Clyde – Annie May – The steamboat skipper – Huzza! Huzza! For now ‘tis night – Billy Buster – My heart’s in Mississippi – The old brown dog – I’se a happy darkie – Hail! All hail! Our happy band –Old master’s death – Ella Lee – A little more cider too – Who’s dat knocking – The guinea maid – Good-bye, Sally dear – The moon is up—Row, boatmen – Me and Eliza – Yo! Yah! Yo! Or Strike the banjo – Git along home my yaller gals – The old days we remember – Good news from home – Joanna Snow – Ring the bell, Fanny – Sad news from home – Netty Lee – Nancy Gray – Jersey Jane – Carry me home to Tennessee – The black cavalier – Toll the bell for Lily Dale – To the cornfields away – Darkies spare those bones – Few days, or I’m gwine home – Riding on a rail – Kitty and the baby – Meet me at sunrise alone – Old Bob Ridley – Still so softly o’er me stealing – The grave of Lilly Dale – Hop de dooden doo – Lovely Sally – Indigenous poetry – The three Thayers – Dialogue: Julius’ row at the dry dock – Dialogue: Ethiopian court scene.
• No. 5. Hard times no more – My lost Carrie’s grave – Some folks – Vilikins and his Dinah – Little Ella – Hold your horses, will you – They sleep in the grave together – Olive Brown – Hazel Dell – My god old home in Tennessee – Nancy Till – Kitty Crow – Wanderer’s dream – My pretty Dilly Burn – Junietta Johnston – We met by chance – I seen herat the window – Annie Bell – My master’s old plantation – The spirit bride – Bobbing around, no. 1 – Bobbing around, no. 2 – Something to love me – When I get in a weaving way – Sweet Lilly Clyde – The darkeys from the south – Lost Isabel – Get up in the morning – Kathleen Mavourneen – The banks of the Ohio – My early home – Way down south in Alabama – Now-a-days – Snow drop Ann – Bonnie Kitty – The menagerie – The wild racoon track – Old King Crow – John Jones – Way down in old Virginia – Where si the spot that we were born on – The blue tailed fly – Hark to the banjo sound – Virginia Juba – Oh! Mr. Coon – Rise Old Napper – Rat catcher’s daughter – The girl with the blue dress – Git along John – Farewell ladies – Il trovatore – Jeanie with the light brown hair – Thou wilt never meet me more – The broken spell – Pride of my heart – Buck Rome’s fishing scrape – The night funeral of a slave.

Call Number

Mus. Res. *MPW-Amer. (Christy. Plantation melodies. 1855)

OCLC

NYPG06-B6695

Title

Christy's plantation melodies / published under the authority of E. P. Christy, originator of Ethiopian minstrelsy and the first to harmonize Negro melodies.

Publisher

Philadelphia (No. 8 South Sixth Street) : Fisher & Brother, 1851-[1856]

Copyright Date

©1851

Additional Formats

Also available on microform: *ZB-4290.

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Added Author

Christy, Edwin Pearce, 1815-1862, compiler.

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Microfilm (OCoLC)155250290

Research Call Number

Mus. Res. *MPW-Amer. (Christy. Plantation melodies. 1855)