Sheet Music Collection

Composer

Raymond B. Egan

Files

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Cover Illustration

there is a photo of Rene Dietrich in the center of the page; the background picture is of a plantation; the house, some sunflowers, and the sun rising over the horizon are obvious / Starmer.

First Line of Song

I heard a pickaninny crying Down in Tennessee one night

First Line of Chorus

You better dry your eyes, my little Coal Black Rose

Subjects

Minstrel Music. ; Songs with piano. ; African Americans Songs and music. ; Popular music United States.

Publication Date

1916

Publisher

New York : Jerome H. Remick & Co.

Performance Medium

Piano; voice

Music Genre

Minstrel

Object Type

text

Format (Original)

1 score (4 p.) ; 35cm.

Format (Digital)

PDF

Physical ID#

32278009353826

Digital ID#

009353826-1916

Location of Original

Box 8, Folder 2, Piece 11

Repository

Manuscripts Division, Special Collections Department, Mississippi State University Libraries.

Digital Publisher

Mississippi State University Libraries (electronic version)

Contact Information

For more information about the contents of this collection, e-mail sp_coll@library.msstate.edu.

Mammy's Little Coal Black Rose

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