List of blackface minstrel songs  

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A "Alabama Joe" (a.k.a. "Shall Trelawney Die") (before 1855) "The Arkansas Traveler"[1] "At Night When de Nigga's Work Is Done"[2] B "Babylon Is Fallen", Henry Clay Work (1863) "Back Side of Albany"[3] "The Band of Niggers! From 'Ole Virginny State'" (1844)[4] "The Bee-Gum", G. Willig (1833)[5] "Billy Patterson", Dan Emmett (1860)[6] "The Black Brigade", Dan Emmett (1863)[7] "Blue Tail Fly" (a.k.a. "Jimmy Crack Corn") c. 1846[8] "The Boatman's Dance", credited to Dan Emmett (1843)[9] (Emmett, Boston, 1840s or 1842) (Nathan 131-2, 186, 191, 193, 320-3) "Bonja Song" (c. 1820)[10] "Bowery Gals" (a.k.a. "As I Was Lumbering")[2] "Bress Dat Lubly Yaller Gal"[2] "Briggs' Breakdown", Z. Bacchus[11] C "Camptown Races", Stephen Foster, (1850)[12] "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny"* James A. Bland "Charleston Gals" (1844)[13] "Ching a Ring Chaw"[14] "Claire de Kitchen", performed as early as 1832 by T. D. Rice and George Washington Dixon[15] "Clar de Track", 1840s.[16] "Clem Titus' Jig", published by Dan Emmett[17] "Coal Black Rose" (c. 1829)[18][19] "Come Back Stephen"/"Come Back Steben"[16] "Cornfield Green"[20] "Cynthia Sue"[16] D "Dandy Broadway Swell", Elias Howe (1849)[21] "Dandy Jim from Caroline" (and variants), Dan Emmett (c. 1844)[22] "Dar He Goes! Dats Him!", Dan Emmett (1844)[23] "Dere Be Any Malted Licker Here?" [24] "Darkey Money Musk" (a.k.a. "Money Must", "Holyrood or Moneymusk", "Sir Archibald Grant of Monymusk's Reel"), Daniel Dow (1780) "Darkies' Pastime"[25] "Dearest May"[16] "Dick Myers' Jig", published by Dan Emmett[26] "Dinah's Wedding Day"[2] "Division Street Jig", Z. Bacchus[27] "Dixie" (a.k.a. "Dixie's Land", "I Wish I Was in Dixie"), Dan Emmett contested, 1859[28] "Do Fare You Well Ladies" (1840s)[29] "Do I Do I Don't Do Nothing" (1825)[30] "Dr. Hekok Jig", Z. Bacchus, published by Dan Emmett[9](Nathan 200, 203, 208, 486-7) E "Eelam Moore Jig", Dan Emmett (before 1854)[31] "Effects of the Brogue", (a.k.a. "Tatter Jack") Dan Emmett (by 1861) F "Far [Fare] You Well Ladies"[2] "Farewell My Lilly Dear", Stephen Foster (1851)[32] "The Fine Old Color'd Gentleman", Dan Emmett (1843)[9] "De Floating Scow Quickstep" (a.k.a. "Oh Carry Me Back to Old Virginny"*), E. Ferrett (1847) "Forty Hosses in de Stable", J. Kierman (1840s)[33] "The Free Nigger", sung by R. W. Pelham (1841)[34] G "Gantz's Jig", published by Dan Emmett[35] "Genuine Negro Jig", published by Dan Emmett[36] “Get along Home, Cindy” - possibly developed from a minstrel tune “Cindy Lou” "Get Up in de Morning"[16] "Ginger Blue" (1841)[37] "Grape Vine Twist"[38] "Gonna Eat Ma Chicken 'Til I'm Fried"[39] "Gray Goose and Gander"[2] "Guinea Maid"[2] "Gumbo Chaff" (a.k.a. "Gombo Chaff"), early 1830s[40] "Gwine to de Mill", Jay R. Jenkins (1846)[41] H "Happy Are We Darkies So Gay"[16] "Hard Times", Tom Briggs (1855)[42] "Hell on the Wabash Jig"[43] "High Daddy", Dan Emmett (1863)[44] "Hop Light, Loo", Dan Emmett (before 1854)[45] "Hot Corn"[2] I "I Ain't Got Time to Tarry" (a.k.a. "The Land of Freedom"), Dan Emmett (1858)[46] "I'm Going Home to Dixie", Dan Emmett (1861)[47] "I'm Gwine ober de Mountain", Dan Emmett (1843)[48] "I Saw the Beam in My Sister's Eye"[49] "Ireland and Virginia"[50] J "Jack on the Green", Dan Emmett[51] "James Crow", Sam Carusi (1832)[52] "Jenny Get Your Hoe Cake Done", popularized by Joel Sweeney (1840)[53] "Jim Along Josey", credited to "an Eminent professor" and performed by John N. Smith (1840) [54] "Jim Brown" (1835)[13] "Johnny Boker or De Broken Yoke in de Coaling Ground" (1840)[55] "Johnny Roach", Dan Emmett (1859)[56] "Jolly Raftsman"[16] "Jordan Is a Hard Road to Travel", Dan Emmett (1853)[57] "The Jolly Raftsman"[20] "Juba"[58] "Juber" (1840s)[59] "Jumbo Jum" (1840)[60] "Jump Jim Crow", (c. 1823, popularized by T.D. Rice in 1828) K "Kingdom Coming" (a.k.a. "Year of Jubilo"), Henry Clay Work (1862) L "Land of Canaan", played by J. Simmons (before 1860) "A Life by the Galley Fire"[16] "De Long Island Nigger", Emma Snow (?) (c. 1848)[4] "Long Time Ago", John Cole (1833)[61] "Loozyanna Low Grounds", Dan Emmett (1859)[62] “Lucy Long” "Lucy Neal"/"Lucy Neale" J. P. Carter (1844)[42] "Lynchburg Town"[16] M "Marty Inglehart Jig", Dan Emmett (1845)[63] "Mary Blane" (a.k.a. "Mary Blain"), Billy Whitlock (1846)[9] "Massa Is a Stingy Man" (1841)[64] "Merry Sleigh Bells"[2] "Miss Lucy Long" (a.k.a. "Lucy Long", "Miss Lucy Song"), Dan Emmett and Frank Brower (1844), or Billy Whitlock (1842)[42] or possibly Billy Whitlock (1838)[65] "Moze Haymar Jig", Dan Emmett (1845)[66] "My Old Kentucky Home", Stephen Foster (1853)[32] "My First Jig", Dan Emmett (c. 1840s)[67] "My Long Tail Blue" (1830s)[34] "My Old Aunt Sally" (1843)[68] "My Old Dad"/"Old Dad" (1844)[69] N "Negro Jig", Dan Emmett (1845)[35] "Nelly Was a Lady", Stephen Foster (1849)[32] "New York Gals", Emma Snow?[70] "The Newton Jig", James Buckley (1860)[71] "Nigga General"[2] "Nigger on de Wood Pile", Dan Emmett (1845)[35] O "(O Lud Gals) Gib Me [Us] Chaw Terbakur", words by Dan Emmett (1843)[72] "Oh, Come along John" a.k.a. "Walk along John" (1843)[73] "Oh, Ladies All!", Dan Emmett (published 1858, probably written in the 1840s)[74] "Oh Lemuel", Stephen Foster (1850) "Oh! Susanna", Stephen Foster (1847)[2][75] "Old Bob Ridley", Charles White (1855)[76] "Old Dan Tucker", words by Dan Emmett (1843) "Old Folks at Home", Stephen Foster (1851)[32] "Old Joe", F. M. Brower (1844)[77] “Old Joe Clark” — based on minstrel tune “Lucy Long” "Old Joe Golden"[78] "Old Johnny Boker"[3] "Old King Crow"[2] "Old K. Y. Ky.", Dan Emmett (1860)[79] "Old Tar River"/Ole Tare River" (1840)[80] "Old Uncle Ned", Stephen Foster (1848)[32] "Ole Bull and Old Dan Tucker" (1844)[81] "The Ole Grey Goose" (1844)[82] "De Ole Jawbone" (and variants), perhaps Joel Sweeney (1840)[42] "Ole Pee Dee", J. P. Carter (1844)[83] "Ole Virginny Break Down" (1841)[84] "The One Horse Open Sleigh", (a.k.a. "Jingle Bells") James Lord Pierpont (1857)[85] "Joe Sweeney's Jig", published by Dan Emmett[86] "Owl Creek Quickstep", Dan Emmett[87] P "Pea Patch Jig", Dan Emmett[42] "Peel's Jig"[88] "Peter Story Jig", Dan Emmett[89] "Philadelphia Gals"[2] "Philisee Charcoal"[2] "Picayune Butler (Ahoo! Ahoo!)"[16] "Picayune Butler's Come to Town" (before 1847)[90] "Polly Wolly Doodle "Possum up the Gum-Tree"[91] Q "Quaker's Jig", R. Myers[35] R

Horace Weston "Ring, Ring De Banjo", Stephen Foster (1851)[92] "Rise Old Napper"[88] "Road to Richmond", Dan Emmett (1864)[93] "Rob Ridley", Charles White (1855) "Rock Susana", Horace Weston (1887)[94] "Root, Hog or Die", Dan Emmett (c. late 1840s or early 1850s)[95] "Rosa Lee"[2] S "Sad to Leave Our Tater Land" (early 1850s)[50] "Sandy Boy", possibly Phil Rice (before 1858) "Sandy Gibson's", Dan Emmett (1859)[96] "Seely Simpkins Jig", Dan Emmett[87] "Settin' on a Rail" (1836)[97] "Shoo Fly, Don't Bother Me" (1869)[98] "Sich a Gettin' Up Stairs" (c. 1834)[97] "Singing Darkey of the Ohio"[2] "Skeeters Do Bite"[2] "Sliding Jenny Jig", R. Myers[99] "Someone in de House wif Dinah", possibly Phil Rice (before 1858) "Stop Dat Knocking", A. F. Winnemore (1847)[9] "Sugar Cane Green"[2] "Sugar in a Gourd"[13] "Suke of Tennessee"[2] "Susey Brown"/"Suzy Brown"[16] "Sweep Oh!"[2] T "Tell Me Josey Whar You Bin" (1840)[100] "To the Cornfields Away"[2] "Tom Brigg's Jig", published by Dan Emmett[26] "Turkey in the Straw", words by Dan Emmett[101] "'Twill Nebber Do to Gib It up So", Dan Emmett (1843)[102] U "Uncle Gabriel" (1848)[103] V "Van Bramer's Jig", published by Dan Emmett[104] "Virginia's Lubly Ground"[2] W "Walk Along John" (1843)[105] "Walk Jaw Bone" (c. 1840) "Westchester Nigga Song"[2] "Whar Did You Come From?" (subtitled "Knock a Nigger Down"), performed by Joel Sweeney (1840)[53] "Whar Is de Spot We Were Born?"[16] "What O' Dat", Dan Emmett (1859)[106] "Whoop Jamboree Jig"[107] "Who's Dat Knocking"[2] "Who's Dat Nigga Dar a Peepin" (1844)[108] "Wide Awake" a.k.a. "Dar's a Darkey in de Tent", Dan Emmett (early 1859)[46] "[In de/In the] Wild Raccoon Track"[2] "De Wild Goose-Nation", Dan Emmett (1844)[109] Y "Yellow Corn"[20] Z "Zip Coon" (a.k.a. "Old Zip Coon"), performed by George Washington Dixon (1829? 1835?)[110]