Lyrics of first lines and refrains

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First line/ Refrain:	'Cause my hair is curly (first line of chorus)
Title:	That's why they call me Shine
Composer:	Dabney, Ford T.
Publisher:	Gotham-Attuck Music Co.
Date:	1910

First line/ Refrain:	Cabin stands upon the stream (first line of chorus)
Title:	Juney at the gate : a popular Ethiopian ballad
Composer:	Bull, Ole
Publisher:	Lee & Walker
Date:	1850

First line/ Refrain:	Can't you see the night am falling? (first line of chorus)
Title:	Down among the sugar cane
Composer:	Mack, Cecil
Publisher:	Gotham-Attucks
Date:	1908

First line/ Refrain:	Can't you see the rain and hail am fastly falling, Alexander (first line of chorus)
Title:	Alexander, don't you love your baby no more?
Composer:	Von Tilzer, Harry
Publisher:	Harry Von Tilzer Music Pub. Co.
Date:	1904

First line/ Refrain:	Castle valse classique, hesitation
Title:	Castle valse classique : humoreske
Composer:	Dvoérâak, Antonâin
Publisher:	Jos. W. Stern & Co.
Date:	1914

First line/ Refrain:	Castle's Lame Duck Waltz
Title:	Congratulations
Composer:	Europe, James Reese
Publisher:	G. Ricordi & Co.
Date:	1914

First line/ Refrain:	Cause I makes mine myself, yes I makes mine myself (first line of chorus)
Title:	I makes mine myself
Composer:	Bowers, Robert Hood
Publisher:	Shapiro, Bernstein & Co.
Date:	c1921

First line/ Refrain:	Childless, desolate this heart (first line of text)
Title:	St. Clare to little Eva in heaven
Composer:	Howard, G. C. (George Cunnibell)
Publisher:	Horace Waters
Date:	1854

First line/ Refrain:	Cinderella Jackson from a town in Minnesota (first line of text)
Title:	The undertaker man
Composer:	Smith, Chris
Publisher:	Harold Rossiter Music Co.
Date:	1911

First line/ Refrain:	Circus came to a country town and gave a grand parade (first line of text)
Title:	If you're such a great star, why don't you shine
Composer:	Jones, Irving
Publisher:	Leo Feist
Date:	1903

First line/ Refrain:	Close yoh dreamy eyes an' lay yoh head on Mammy's breast (first line of text)
Title:	Mammy's lullaby
Composer:	Roberts, Lee S.
Publisher:	Forster Music Pub. Inc.
Date:	1918

First line/ Refrain:	Come 'long you darkies, yes come eb'ry one (first line of text)
Title:	March black America : (a Negro oddity)
Composer:	Zickel, Harry H.
Publisher:	W.C. Broadwell
Date:	1895

First line/ Refrain:	Come 'long you darkies, yes eb'ry one (first line of text)
Title:	Black America : march and two-step : for piano
Composer:	Zickel, Harry H.
Publisher:	Whitney-Marvin Music
Date:	1895

First line/ Refrain:	Come along get you ready wear your bran bran new gown (first line of text)
Title:	A hot time in the old town
Composer:	Metz, Theodore A.
Publisher:	Willis Woodward & Co.
Date:	1896

First line/ Refrain:	Come along to Auntie Skinner's chicken dinner (first line of chorus)
Title:	Auntie Skinner's chicken dinner : novelty song
Composer:	Morse, Theodore F.
Publisher:	M. Witmark & Sons
Date:	1915

First line/ Refrain:	Come and be my Lindy Jane (first line of chorus)
Title:	Big brown booloo eyes
Composer:	Leonard, Eddie
Publisher:	Cohan & Harris Pub. Co.
Date:	1908

First line/ Refrain:	Come and lay your kinkey head on mammy's shoulder (first line of chorus)
Title:	Mammy's chocolate soldier
Composer:	Gottler, Archie
Publisher:	Waterson, Berlin & Snyder
Date:	1918

First line/ Refrain:	Come dear and don't let our faith weaken (first line of text)
Title:	Love will find a way
Composer:	Blake, Eubie
Publisher:	M. Witmark & Sons
Date:	1921

First line/ Refrain:	Come here quick, I'm getting sick (first line of text)
Title:	The Saint Vitus rag : song
Composer:	Johnson, J. Rosamond (John Rosamond)
Publisher:	Jerome H. Remick & Co.
Date:	1912

First line/ Refrain:	Come here, Mister Johnson, for I want to have a talk with you (first line of text)
Title:	What'd yo' do wid de letter, Mr. Johnson
Composer:	Rosenfeld, Monroe H.
Publisher:	American Music Co.
Date:	1901

First line/ Refrain:	Come here, Mister Johnson, for I want to have a talk with you (first line of text)
Title:	What'd yo' do wid de letter, Mr. Johnson
Composer:	Rosenfeld, Monroe H.
Publisher:	American Music Co.
Date:	1901

First line/ Refrain:	Come listen all you galls and boys I's jist from Tuckyhoe (first line of text)
Title:	Jim Crow
Composer:
Publisher:	E. Riley
Date:	1829

First line/ Refrain:	Come listen to my story (first line of text)
Title:	Lucy Neal : song & chorus
Composer:	Sanford, James
Publisher:	Firth & Hall
Date:	1844

First line/ Refrain:	Come love come, de boat lies low (first line of chorus)
Title:	Nancy Till
Composer:	I. D. K.
Publisher:	Greenshields Brothers
Date:	185X

First line/ Refrain:	Come on a seven, and where are you 'leven (first line of chorus)
Title:	Shootin' craps
Composer:	Newman, Joseph
Publisher:	Meyer & Brother
Date:	1893

First line/ Refrain:	Come on and shake your feet (first line of chorus)
Title:	Mammy Jinny's jubilee
Composer:	Muir, Lewis F.
Publisher:	F. A. Mills
Date:	1913

First line/ Refrain:	Come on down, come on down (first line of chorus)
Title:	Loading up the Mandy Lee : song
Composer:	Marshall, Henry I.
Publisher:	Jerome H. Remick & Co.
Date:	1915

First line/ Refrain:	Come Sue, lub me do (first line of chorus)
Title:	Susquehanna Sue : a southern serenade
Composer:	Walsh, J. Frank
Publisher:	G. W. Setchell
Date:	1897

First line/ Refrain:	Come to me ma lady Lu come (first line of chorus)
Title:	Ma lady Lu : a darky love lament
Composer:	Brill, Edwin S.
Publisher:	Chas. B. Ward Music Publishing Co.
Date:	1899

First line/ Refrain:	Come, come to me dear little girl you with the eyes of blue (first line of text)
Title:	You with the eyes of blue
Composer:	Shook, Benjamin
Publisher:	Grinnell Bros.
Date:	1908

First line/ Refrain:	Come, my little piccaninny (first line of text)
Title:	A dusky lullaby
Composer:	Gilbertâe, Hallett
Publisher:	Huntzinger & Dilworth
Date:	1916

First line/ Refrain:	Commence advancing, commence advancing (first line of chorus)
Title:	At the ball, that's all
Composer:	Hill, J. Leubrie (John Leubrie)
Publisher:	Jerome H. Remick & Co.
Date:	1913

First line/ Refrain:	Coon he loved his yeller girl on her his dough he spent (first line of text)
Title:	You needn't come around knocking me
Composer:
Publisher:	G.T. Lyon
Date:	1901

First line/ Refrain:	Coon he's sorry he ain't white (first line of text)
Title:	Mandy loves me
Composer:	Royle, Martha
Publisher:	Edwin Milton Royle
Date:	1902

First line/ Refrain:	Coon who once was stranded on the shores of sunny Spain (first line of text)
Title:	The Spanish coon
Composer:	Beam, Mark
Publisher:	Sunday American
Date:	1904

First line/ Refrain:	Coon's very sad (first line of text)
Title:	I'm feelin' fine
Composer:	Hamilton, Wesley
Publisher:	Will Rossiter
Date:	1905

First line/ Refrain:	Coontown brigade are on review today (first line of chorus)
Title:	De coontown review : patrol
Composer:	Jennings, J. H.
Publisher:	J.H. Jennings
Date:	1897

First line/ Refrain:	Coony spoony rag
Title:	Wild cherries : (coony, spoony rag)
Composer:	Snyder, Ted
Publisher:	Ted Snyder Co.
Date:	1909

First line/ Refrain:	Cotton fields remind me of a story I once heard (first line of text)
Title:	Cotton (Cotton was a little Dixie rose) : pickaninny fox trot ballad
Composer:	Rose, Fred
Publisher:	M. Witmark & Sons
Date:	1920

First line/ Refrain:	Cotton, folks all hugged and kissed him (first line of chorus)
Title:	Cotton (Cotton was a little Dixie rose) : pickaninny fox trot ballad
Composer:	Rose, Fred
Publisher:	M. Witmark & Sons
Date:	1920

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