Christy's Plantation Melodies - online songbook
176+ Songs Selected by E.P. Christy, Originator of Ethiopian Minstrelsy.
Published By FISHER & BROTHER , circa 1851
About This Book
Minstrel show, or minstrelsy, was an American entertainment extant from about 1830 to 1910, it consisted of comic skits, variety acts, dancing, and music. It was initially mostly performed by white people in black-face but later, especially after the American Civil War, African Americans in blackface. Minstrel shows portrayed blacks in a stereotypical and sometimes derogatory way, which would fall very far short of today's PC standards. The songs have tendencies to maudlinism and are often heavily nostalgic for a lost "idyllic" existence on the old plantation and lost youth etc - themes very popular in many forms of Victorian song but quite rare in modern song. E. P. Christy was a major figure and promoter of this early commercial entertainment.
Warning: The lyrics of these songs reflect life and attitudes as they were in the 19th century and some use racial stereotypes which may be found offensive.
However, many of the lyrics do have a great charm and unpretentiousness not found in modern songs and also record some earlier Negro folk music that may not have other wise have been preserved. Many of these songs have, through "folk processing", down the years, become, albeit in considerably altered form, incorporated into the traditions of folk, early country, old-time and bluegrass music.
These lyrics were originally published as three separate songbooks but which were included together in this one 1851 book.
The page numbers of the original three books was retained so the book had three page ones, twos etc.
To accommodate this quirky system I have distinguished each book by numbered them 101, 201, 301 etc
CHRISTY'S PLANTATION MELODIES, Contents & Page Numbers.
See note above to get the original page numbers from the book.
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Frontispiece - E.P. Christy (Portrait)
Front Cover
Copyright Notice
Old Folks at Home - 0107
Oh ! Boys, carry me 'long - 0108
Page - 0109
Nelly Bly - 0110
Way down in Ca-i-ro - 0111
Dolcy Jones - 0112
Ring, ring the Banjo - 0113
My Brodder Gum - 0114
Camptown Races, or, Gwine to run all Night - 0115
Page - 0116
De Days when I was young - 0117
Greeting to a Merry Key not Jenny Lind's - 0118
Old Aunty Brown - 0119
Medley Song - 0120
Do last ob de Cabbages - 0121
Julius from Kentucky - 0122
Page - 0123
Rosa Bell,Parody On Old Long Island's sea-girt Shore - 0124
Page - 0125
Jane Monroe, Nelly was a Lady - 0126
Page - 0127
Julius' Bride - 0128
Ginger's Wedding - 0129
Mary Blane - 0130
Witching Dinah Crow - 0131
Nancy Tease - 0132
Parody on The Phantom Chorus, - 0133
Pi-Hi-Hi, the Black Shaker's Song - 0134
Katy Dean - 0135
Uncle Ned. - 0136
Old Uncle Edward - 0137
Gone to Alabama - 0138
Page - 0139
Emma Snow - 0140
Gam-Tree Canoe, - 0141
The Virginia Rose-Budj or, The Lost Child - 0142
Emma Dale - 0143
Stop dat Knocking - 0144
Bowery Gals - 0145
Page - 0146
Page - 0147
The Haunted Well,We'll have a little Dance to-night, Boys - 0148
I wish I was in Ole Virginny - 0149
Rosa Dear - 0150
I'm off for Charleston - 0151
Poor Aunt Dinah - 0152
Page - 0153
Come to de Ole Gum-Tree - 0154
Oh Come, Darkies, Come, Massa sound is Sleeping - 0155
Walk in the Parlour - 0156
Page - 0157
Wake up, Mose! the Engine's Coming - 0158
Dolly Day - 0159
Angelina Baker - 0160
Page - 0161
Melinda May - 0162
Kate Lorraine - 0163
She Sleeps in the Grave - 0164
The Darkey's Serenade, Joe ob Tennessee - 0165
Page - 0166
Julia Green - 0167
Lynchburg Town - 0168
Negro's Seven Ages not Shakspeare's , - 0169
Page - 0170
Page - 0171
Eulalie - 0207
Massa's in the Cold Ground - 0208
Ella Ree - 0209
I'll throw Myself away - 0210
The Old Folks are gone - 0211
What shall this Darkey do ? - 0212
Page - 0213
Oh! Lemuel! - 0214
Hither we come - 0215
Farewell, My Lilly Dear.... - 0216
Ding, Dong! or, The Darkies' Wedding - 0217
Julius's Trip to the World's Fair - 0218
Good Old Dinah - 0219
Uncle Tom's Gone to Rest - 0220
Old Ned - 0221
The Old Corn Mill - 0222
Katy Darling - 0223
Page - 0224
'Tilda Horn - 0225
Come, Darkies, Come - 0226
Hush-a-bye, Baby - 0227
Page - 0228
The Belie of Winyaw Bay - 0229
Poor Foolish Joe - 0230
Page - 0231
Poor Old Joe, The Rose of Baltimore - 0232
Page - 0233
The Dark' who Totes the Target - 0234
The Old Log Hut at Home,Aunt Dinah Roe - 0235
Night Funeral of a Slave. - 0236
Pompey's Grave - 0237
Seraphina Tell - 0238
Sweep-oh Refrain - 0239
The Darkey Sleighing Party - 0240
Dinah's Wedding-Day - 0241
The Darkey Blackberrying Party - 0242
Page - 0243
Uncle Gabriel, the Darkey General - 0244
Happy are we Darkies so Gay - 0245
Would I were a Boy again - 0246
Santee's River Side - 0247
Oh, Dearest Dine - 0248
The Coon-Hunter's Bride - 0249
My Lucy so Fair - 0250
Lizzy Lee - 0251
The Yellow Rose of Texas - 0252
Sarah Day - 0253
We'll have a little Dance To-night, Boys - 0254
Nelly Bell - 0255
Singing Darkey of the Ohio - 0256
The Old Virginia State - 0257
Jenny Lyle - 0258
The Girl from the South - 0259
Shining Moon - 0260
The Old Jawbone - 0261
The Heart-broken Darkey - 0262
Carry me Back to Old Virginia's Shore - 0263
Sueky Lane - 0264
Nancy Shore - 0265
Oh, Dinah Dear - 0266
Old Virginia Never Tire - 0267
Susan Rayne - 0268
The M. P.'s Musical Invitation - 0269
See, Darkies, See - 0270
Page - 0271
Old Dog Tray - 0307
I Long for My Home in Kentuck' - 0308
Lily Dale - 0309
The Other Side of Jordan - 0310
Page - 0311
Etty Way, or Good-bye. Boys - 0312
Sweet Lilla Brown. - 0313
She's Black, But That's no Matter, Ho ! Ho ! for Ginger Bluff - 0314
Will no Yaller Gal Marry Me I - 0315
Fare You Well! - 0316
Poor Old Jessy. - 0317
Take Me Home - 0318
Pompey's Trip to New York - 0319
The Old Churchyard - 0320
Sally Primer - 0321
My Childhood's Happy Home, Emma Gray - 0322
Katy Darling's Farewell to Dermot - 0323
Old Jumbo-Gum, My Joe - 0324
Page - 0325
Amy Snow is Sleeping - 0326
The Fancy Coloured Ball - 0327
Page - 0328
Wait for the Wagon - 0329
The Yaller Gal with the Josey on - 0330
The Jolly Old Crow - 0331
The Rose of Alabama, - 0332
Rosa Lee, or Don't be Foolish, Joe - 0333
Our Hut on the Old Plantation - 0334
The Dandy Broadway Swell - 0335
Page - 0336
Dine and Joe - 0337
Dearest Mae - 0338
The Old Cottage Clock - 0339
Coloured Fugitive's Lament, - 0340
Page - 0341
Linda's Gone to Baltimore - 0342
Here Goes the Corn - 0343
Poor Lizzie Lee - 0344
Old Sambo's Lament,List Thee, My Dinah - 0345
Mary Dean - 0346
The Old Banjo, - 0347
Susey Saul - 0348
My Lovely Kate - 0349
Page - 0350
Poor Juba. - 0351
Flora May - 0352
Boston Kate - 0353
The Joys of July Four, Sally Gates - 0354
Serephena Tell - 0355
The Boot-black's Soliloquy., - 0356
Florence Lee - 0357
'Way down in Louisiana - 0358
Page - 0359
Oh hail! Darkies, hail! - 0360
Banks of Susquehannah - 0361
Dinah Green - 0362
Dandy Jim's Lament - 0363
My Valley Home, Good-bye - 0364
We are Coming, Sister Mary - 0365
Old Times Come again - 0366
Jim Brown's Address to his Sogers - 0367
Page - 0368
Page - 0369
Page - 0370
Contents - 0371
Contents - 0372
Contents - 0373
Contents - 0374
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