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First line/ Refrain:	I absolutely and positively refuse (first line of chorus)
Title:	Mister Johnson, good night
Composer:	Ingraham, Herbert
Publisher:	Maurice Shapiro
Date:	1910

First line/ Refrain:	I ain't afraid to fight Jack Dempsey (first line of chorus)
Title:	I ain't afraid of nuthin' dat's alive : (character song)
Composer:	Benard, Al
Publisher:	Triangle Music Pub. Co
Date:	c1921

First line/ Refrain:	I ain't never done nothin' to nobody (first line of chorus)
Title:	Nobody
Composer:	Williams, Bert
Publisher:	Attucks Music Co.
Date:	c1905

First line/ Refrain:	I am dat fortune telling man (first line of chorus)
Title:	Fortune telling man
Composer:	Williams, Bert
Publisher:	Jos. W. Stern & Co.
Date:	c1901

First line/ Refrain:	I am drifting down de hill of life (first line of text)
Title:	The old log cabin in the dell : song and chorus
Composer:	White, C. A. (Charles Albert)
Publisher:	White, Smith & Co.
Date:	1875

First line/ Refrain:	I am going far away, far away to leave you now (first line of verse)
Title:	The old cabin home
Composer:	Paine, T.
Publisher:	Henry Tolman
Date:	1857

First line/ Refrain:	I am going there (first line of text)
Title:	I am going there, or, The death of little Eva
Composer:	Adams, John S. (John Stowell)
Publisher:	O. Ditson
Date:	1852

First line/ Refrain:	I am growing old and weary now (first line of text)
Title:	The old log cabin in the lane : song & chorus
Composer:	Chamberlain, J. C.
Publisher:	D.S. Holmes
Date:	1875

First line/ Refrain:	I am his lady, he is my beau (first line of chorus)
Title:	I'll do as much for you
Composer:	Brown, Harry Leslie
Publisher:	Shapiro, Remick and Co.
Date:	1904

First line/ Refrain:	I am twice as happy as a millionaire (first line of text)
Title:	Please let me sleep
Composer:	Brymn, J. Tim
Publisher:	Harry Von Tilzer Music Pub. Co.
Date:	1902

First line/ Refrain:	I am twice as happy as a millionaire (first line of text)
Title:	Please let me sleep
Composer:	Brymn, J. Tim
Publisher:	Harry Von Tilzer Music Pub. Co.
Date:	1902

First line/ Refrain:	I bet that the man who wrote the vampire certn'ly must 'ave known my wife (first line of refrain)
Title:	The vampire
Composer:	Williams, Bert
Publisher:	Jerome H. Remick
Date:	c1914

First line/ Refrain:	I came from Alabama wid my banjo on my knee (first line of text)
Title:	Oh! Susanna
Composer:	Foster, Stephen Collins
Publisher:	C. Holt Jr.
Date:	1848

First line/ Refrain:	I came to town just to take in the sights (first line of text)
Title:	At the Mississippi cabaret
Composer:	Gumble, Albert
Publisher:	Remick
Date:	1914

First line/ Refrain:	I changed my name when I got free (first line of text)
Title:	Uncle Rome : the old boatman
Composer:	Homer, Sidney
Publisher:	G. Schirmer
Date:	1909

First line/ Refrain:	I changed my name when I got free (first line of text)
Title:	Uncle Rome : the old boatman
Composer:	Homer, Sidney
Publisher:	G. Schirmer
Date:	1909

First line/ Refrain:	I come from Alabama with my banjo on my knee (first line of text)
Title:	Susanna
Composer:	Foster, Stephen Collins
Publisher:	Peters, Field & Co.
Date:	1848

First line/ Refrain:	I come up Norf, on a little bender (first line of text)
Title:	Year of jubilee, or, Kingdom has come!
Composer:	Sambo
Publisher:	H.M. Higgins
Date:	1862

First line/ Refrain:	I don't like no new mown hay (first line of chorus)
Title:	A pork chop is the sweetest flower that grows
Composer:	Browne, Raymond A.
Publisher:	Sol Bloom
Date:	1903

First line/ Refrain:	I don't like them minstrel folks and I doesn't care for the end men's jokes (first line of chorus)
Title:	When Mister Shakespeare comes to town, or, I don't like them minstrel folks
Composer:	Schwartz, Jean
Publisher:	Howley, Haviland & Dresser
Date:	1901

First line/ Refrain:	I don't mind talking and I don't mind walking with the baker man that's true (first line of chorus)
Title:	The undertaker man
Composer:	Smith, Chris
Publisher:	Harold Rossiter Music Co.
Date:	1911

First line/ Refrain:	I don't want to wait beneath the shelt'ring palms (first line of chorus)
Title:	I could love you in a steam heat flat
Composer:	Mullen, J. B.
Publisher:	Harry Von Tilzer Music Pub. Co.
Date:	1903

First line/ Refrain:	I got a beau, I love him so (first line of text)
Title:	My Sambo
Composer:	Witmark, Isidore
Publisher:	M. Witmark & Sons
Date:	1901

First line/ Refrain:	I got an invitation to see the celebration (first line of text)
Title:	Auntie Skinner's chicken dinner : novelty song
Composer:	Morse, Theodore F.
Publisher:	M. Witmark & Sons
Date:	1915

First line/ Refrain:	I had a bud widin my garden growing (first line of text)
Title:	I hear dar hoofs upon de hill
Composer:	Kneass, Nelson
Publisher:	Firth Pond & Co.
Date:	1849

First line/ Refrain:	I had an old black mammy who used to sing to me (first line of text)
Title:	Mammy's song
Composer:	Ware, Harriet
Publisher:	John Church
Date:	1910

First line/ Refrain:	I had an old black mammy who used to sing to me (first line of text)
Title:	Mammy's song
Composer:	Ware, Harriet
Publisher:	John Church
Date:	1910

First line/ Refrain:	I hate to see de evening sun go down (first line of text)
Title:	The St. Louis blues
Composer:	Handy, W. C. (William Christopher)
Publisher:	Pace & Handy Music Co.
Date:	1914

First line/ Refrain:	I have loved thee, Zula Zong (first line of text)
Title:	Zula Zong : song and chorus
Composer:	Webster, Joseph Philbrick
Publisher:	H. M. Higgins
Date:	1860

First line/ Refrain:	I have roamed thro' sunny Italy, and France and England, too (first line of text)
Title:	The home of the girl I love
Composer:	Graham, Howard
Publisher:	New York Journal and Advertiser
Date:	1900

First line/ Refrain:	I hear Mister Henry Tompson (first line of text)
Title:	You aint no actor
Composer:	O'Brien, Neil
Publisher:	Whitney-Warner Pub. Co.
Date:	1902

First line/ Refrain:	I heard a pickaninny crying (first line of text)
Title:	Mammy's little coal black rose : song
Composer:	Whiting, Richard A.
Publisher:	Remick Music Co.
Date:	1916

First line/ Refrain:	I heard a pickaninny crying (first line of text)
Title:	Mammy's little coal black rose : song
Composer:	Whiting, Richard A.
Publisher:	Remick
Date:	1916

First line/ Refrain:	I heard de ol' folks talkin' (first line of text)
Title:	Why Adam sinned
Composer:	Rogers, Alex
Publisher:	Gotham-Attucks Music Co.
Date:	1904

First line/ Refrain:	I heard him murm'ring softly on an old plantation lone (first line of text)
Title:	Returned : empty and so silent now the old cabin stands
Composer:	Cook, Will Marion
Publisher:	Harry Von Tilzer Music Pub. Co., sole selling agents
Date:	1902

First line/ Refrain:	I humbly beg yo' pardon, Mrs. Johnson (first line of chorus)
Title:	What'd yo' do wid de letter, Mr. Johnson
Composer:	Rosenfeld, Monroe H.
Publisher:	American Music Co.
Date:	1901

First line/ Refrain:	I humbly beg yo' pardon, Mrs. Johnson (first line of chorus)
Title:	What'd yo' do wid de letter, Mr. Johnson
Composer:	Rosenfeld, Monroe H.
Publisher:	American Music Co.
Date:	1901

First line/ Refrain:	I just come out to sing a song (first line of text)
Title:	Going ober de mountain
Composer:
Publisher:	Geo. P. Reed
Date:	1843

First line/ Refrain:	I know a gal (first line of text)
Title:	Pliny, come kiss your baby
Composer:	Reed, David
Publisher:	Jos. W. Stern & Co.
Date:	1899

First line/ Refrain:	I know sump'n sofer'n satin (first line of text)
Title:	Malindy : a Negro love song
Composer:	Johns, Clayton
Publisher:	O. Ditson Co.
Date:	1905

First line/ Refrain:	I know that you are just a great big lonesome baby (first line of chorus)
Title:	You're a great big lonesome baby : song
Composer:	Cook, Doc
Publisher:	Jerome H. Remick Co.
Date:	1917

First line/ Refrain:	I know you've heard about the style men (first line of text)
Title:	Ragtime caveman of mine
Composer:	Bailey, William
Publisher:	James H. Howard
Date:	1922

First line/ Refrain:	I listen to the south winds gently sighing (first line of text)
Title:	Ma lady Lu : a darky love lament
Composer:	Brill, Edwin S.
Publisher:	Chas. B. Ward Music Publishing Co.
Date:	1899

First line/ Refrain:	I love the white girl and the black (first line of text)
Title:	Little more cider
Composer:	Hart, Austin
Publisher:	Sarles & Adey
Date:	1852

First line/ Refrain:	I love the white girl and the black and I love all the rest (first line of text)
Title:	A little more cider : a favorite song
Composer:	Hart, Austin
Publisher:	Oliver Ditson
Date:	1853

First line/ Refrain:	I loves a girl, real dusky pearl (first line of text)
Title:	I aint a-goin' to weep no more
Composer:	Von Tilzer, Harry
Publisher:	Shapiro, Bernstein & Von Tilzer
Date:	1900

First line/ Refrain:	I lub a gal, s'pose she lubs me too (first line of text)
Title:	Louisiana Lou : song
Composer:	Stuart, Leslie
Publisher:	T.B. Harms & Co.
Date:	1894

First line/ Refrain:	I lub a lubly gal, I do (first line of chorus)
Title:	I lub a lubly gal, I do
Composer:	Thomas, Brandon
Publisher:	The Musical News Co.
Date:	1896

First line/ Refrain:	I lub a lubly gal, I do (first line of text)
Title:	I lub a lubly gal, I do
Composer:	Thomas, Brandon
Publisher:	The Musical News Co.
Date:	1896

First line/ Refrain:	I miss yo' in de monin' (first line of text)
Title:	Can't yo' heah me callin' : Caroline
Composer:	Roma, Caro
Publisher:	M. Witmark & Sons
Date:	1914

First line/ Refrain:	I once did know a pretty gal (first line of text)
Title:	Mary Blane : as sung by the Ethiopian Serenaders at the St. James Theatre, London and Palmos Opera House, New York
Composer:	Halliday, T.
Publisher:	William Hall & Son
Date:	1847

First line/ Refrain:	I once did love a yellow gal (first line of text)
Title:	Mary Blane
Composer:
Publisher:	O. Ditson
Date:	18XX

First line/ Refrain:	I once knew a Nigger (first line of text)
Title:	Uncle Ned : the popular Negro ballad
Composer:	Foster, Stephen Collins
Publisher:	J. Allen
Date:	18XX

First line/ Refrain:	I s'pose you all have heard of Doctor Fojo Bones (first line of text)
Title:	You'll never need a doctor no more
Composer:	Smith, Chris
Publisher:	Skidmore music Co
Date:	c1921

First line/ Refrain:	I suppose you have heard of the great commander (first line of text)
Title:	U.S.G. : national walk 'round
Composer:	Emmett, Daniel Decatur
Publisher:	Wm. A. Pond & Co.
Date:	1864

First line/ Refrain:	I think I hear the angels sing (first line of text)
Title:	Shew! fly, don't bother me : comic song and dance, or walk around
Composer:	Campbell, Frank
Publisher:	White, Smith & Perry
Date:	1869

First line/ Refrain:	I used to be a lucky moke (first line of text)
Title:	Constantly
Composer:	Williams, Bert
Publisher:	Remick Music Corp.
Date:	1922?

First line/ Refrain:	I used to be a lucky moke (first line of text)
Title:	Constantly
Composer:	Williams, Bert
Publisher:	Jerome H. Remick & Co.
Date:	c1910

First line/ Refrain:	I used to have a dear old Mammy (first line of text)
Title:	They made it twice as nice as paradise : and they called it Dixieland : song
Composer:	Whiting, Richard A.
Publisher:	Jerome H. Remick & Co.
Date:	1916

First line/ Refrain:	I want the whole wide world to know (first line of refrain)
Title:	I love the land of old black Joe
Composer:	Donaldson, Walter
Publisher:	Irving Berlin
Date:	1920

First line/ Refrain:	I want to go back to my baby days (first line of text)
Title:	Rock me in the cradle of love
Composer:	Hill, J. Leubrie (John Leubrie)
Publisher:	Jerome H. Remick & Co.
Date:	1914

First line/ Refrain:	I want to go where flowers grow (first line of chorus)
Title:	Daisy days : song
Composer:	Blaufuss, Walter
Publisher:	Jerome H. Remick
Date:	1921

First line/ Refrain:	I wants a man who can play ping pong (first line of chorus)
Title:	I wants a ping pong man
Composer:	Whitney, Howard
Publisher:	M. Witmark & Sons
Date:	1902

First line/ Refrain:	I was so cute when I was young (first line of text)
Title:	Not lately : character song
Composer:	Prince, Chas. A.
Publisher:	Triangle Music Pub. Co.
Date:	1922

First line/ Refrain:	I went down to Sandy hook, toder arter noon (first line of text)
Title:	Zip Coon : a popular Negro song
Composer:
Publisher:	Firth & Hall
Date:	1834

First line/ Refrain:	I will love you
Title:	As long as there is love : I will love you
Composer:	Guy, Harry P.
Publisher:	Jerome H. Remick & Co.
Date:	1914

First line/ Refrain:	I wonder is mah love in de sky wid de moon (first line of text)
Title:	Wid de moon, moon, moon : Negro love-song
Composer:	Cook, Will Marion
Publisher:	G. Schirmer
Date:	1907

First line/ Refrain:	I wonder what's the matter with the mail (first line of chorus)
Title:	What's the matter with the mail?
Composer:	Wenrich, Percy
Publisher:	Fred J. Hamill
Date:	1904

First line/ Refrain:	I wonder where my easy rider's gone today (first line of chorus)
Title:	I wonder where my easy rider's gone
Composer:	Brooks, Shelton
Publisher:	Will Rossiter
Date:	1913

First line/ Refrain:	I'd frow down any coon fur her (first line of text)
Title:	Ma tiger lily
Composer:	Sloane, A. Baldwin (Alfred Baldwin)
Publisher:	M. Witmark
Date:	1900

First line/ Refrain:	I'd leave ma happy home for you (first line of chorus)
Title:	I'd leave ma happy home for you
Composer:	Von Tilzer, Harry
Publisher:	Shapiro, Bernstein & Von Tilzer
Date:	1899

First line/ Refrain:	I'll be down to get you in a taxi honey (first line of chorus)
Title:	The darktown strutters' ball
Composer:	Brooks, Shelton
Publisher:	Will Rossiter
Date:	1917

First line/ Refrain:	I'll be down to get you in a taxi honey (first line of chorus)
Title:	The darktown strutters' ball
Composer:	Brooks, Shelton
Publisher:	Leo Feist
Date:	1917

First line/ Refrain:	I'll be down to get you in a taxi honey (first line of chorus)
Title:	The darktown strutters' ball
Composer:	Brooks, Shelton
Publisher:	Leo. Feist
Date:	1917

First line/ Refrain:	I'll be down to get you in a taxi, honey (first line of chorus)
Title:	The darktown strutter's ball
Composer:	Brooks, Shelton
Publisher:	Will Rossiter
Date:	1917

First line/ Refrain:	I'll be down to get you in a taxi, honey (first line of chorus)
Title:	The darktown strutters' ball : fox trot song
Composer:	Brooks, Shelton
Publisher:	L. Feist
Date:	1917

First line/ Refrain:	I'll be fourteen years old pretty soon (first line of text)
Title:	I'm so glad my mamma don't know where I'm at
Composer:	Toosweet, Willie
Publisher:	Leo. Feist Inc.
Date:	1918

First line/ Refrain:	I'll be fourteen years old pretty soon (first line of text)
Title:	I'm so glad my mamma don't know where I'm at
Composer:	Toosweet, Willie
Publisher:	Syndicate Music Co.
Date:	1915

First line/ Refrain:	I'm a comin' (first line of chorus)
Title:	They'll be mighty proud in dixie of their old black Joe
Composer:	Carroll, Harry
Publisher:	Shapiro, Bernstein & Co.
Date:	1918

First line/ Refrain:	I'm a willin' to wait (first line of chorus)
Title:	I'm willin' to wait : (but not too long)
Composer:	Lowitz, John B.
Publisher:	M. Witmark
Date:	1907

First line/ Refrain:	I'm bery sad no joy for me (first line of chorus)
Title:	Young folks at home
Composer:	Livingston, Hattie
Publisher:	Gould & Berry
Date:	1852

First line/ Refrain:	I'm coming, I'm coming (first line of chorus)
Title:	Old black Joe
Composer:	Foster, Stephen Collins
Publisher:	Chicago Music Co.
Date:	1900

First line/ Refrain:	I'm coming, I'm coming (first line of chorus)
Title:	Old black Joe
Composer:	Foster, Stephen Collins
Publisher:	De Luxe Music Co.
Date:	1910

First line/ Refrain:	I'm goin' away, far, far away (first line of chorus)
Title:	I'm goin' away
Composer:	Orth, Frank
Publisher:	M.D. Swisher
Date:	1907

First line/ Refrain:	I'm goin' to tell you 'bout a masquerade (first line of text)
Title:	You got to play rag time
Composer:	Sloane, A. Baldwin (Alfred Baldwin)
Publisher:	M. Witmark
Date:	1899

First line/ Refrain:	I'm goin' to Tishomingo because I'm sad today (first line of chorus)
Title:	Tishomingo blues
Composer:	Williams, Spencer
Publisher:	Jos. W. Stern & Co.
Date:	1917

First line/ Refrain:	I'm going back, back, back to Baltimore (first line of chorus)
Title:	Back, back, back to Baltimore
Composer:	Van Alstyne, Egbert
Publisher:	Shapiro, Remick & Co.
Date:	1904

First line/ Refrain:	I'm going back, back, back to Baltimore (first line of chorus)
Title:	Back, back, back to Baltimore
Composer:	Van Alstyne, Egbert
Publisher:	Shapiro, Remick & Co.
Date:	1904

First line/ Refrain:	I'm going to go (first line of chorus)
Title:	I've said my last farewell : toot, toot, good bye
Composer:	Fisher, Fred
Publisher:	Helf & Hager Co.
Date:	1906

First line/ Refrain:	I'm gonna quit Saturday! Take that straight from me (first line of chorus)
Title:	I'm gonna quit - Saturday!
Composer:	Archer, Harry
Publisher:	Leo. Feist Inc.
Date:	1921

First line/ Refrain:	I'm having trouble with my gal I find (first line of text)
Title:	Everybody has a whistle like me
Composer:	Rogers, Ed.
Publisher:	Jos. W. Stern & Co.
Date:	1901

First line/ Refrain:	I'm really worried about you dearie (first line of text)
Title:	You're a great big lonesome baby : song
Composer:	Cook, Doc
Publisher:	Jerome H. Remick Co.
Date:	1917

First line/ Refrain:	I'm satisfied, I'm satisfied (first line of chorus)
Title:	Satisfied : an emotional drag
Composer:	Bennett, Theron C.
Publisher:	Victor Kremer Co.
Date:	1904

First line/ Refrain:	I'm sighin' I'm cryin' (first line of text)
Title:	It's all your fault
Composer:	Blake, Eubie
Publisher:	Maryland Music Pub. Co.
Date:	1915

First line/ Refrain:	I'm so lonely, I'm so blue (first line of text)
Title:	Ev'ry day, or, I want you every day
Composer:	Brooks, Shelton
Publisher:	Will Rossiter
Date:	1918

First line/ Refrain:	I'm up against the real thing now (first line of chorus)
Title:	He's up against the real thing now
Composer:	Williams, Bert
Publisher:	Jos. W. Stern
Date:	c1898

First line/ Refrain:	I'm weary of my troubles and I'm tired of my woes (first line of text)
Title:	Moses Andrew Jackson, good-bye
Composer:	Snyder, Ted
Publisher:	F.A. Mills
Date:	1906

First line/ Refrain:	I's a little Alabama coon (first line of text)
Title:	Little Alabama coon
Composer:	Starr, Hattie
Publisher:	Willis Woodward & Co.
Date:	1893

First line/ Refrain:	I's in lub wid a gal (first line of text)
Title:	Susquehanna Sue : a southern serenade
Composer:	Walsh, J. Frank
Publisher:	G. W. Setchell
Date:	1897

First line/ Refrain:	I'se a goin' ober Jordan (first line of chorus)
Title:	I'll meet you at de cross roads in de mornin' : song and chorus
Composer:	Rutledge, John T.
Publisher:	H.T. Martin
Date:	1877

First line/ Refrain:	I'se a gwine to go away (first line of text)
Title:	I'll meet you at de cross roads in de mornin' : song and chorus
Composer:	Rutledge, John T.
Publisher:	H.T. Martin
Date:	1877

First line/ Refrain:	I'se acquainted wid a yaller gal (first line of text)
Title:	Rosa Ginger
Composer:
Publisher:	Vanderbeek's
Date:	1849

First line/ Refrain:	I'se done shook my Alabama gal (first line of text)
Title:	My Honolulu lady
Composer:	Johnson, Lee
Publisher:	Zeno Mauvais Music Co.
Date:	1898

First line/ Refrain:	I'se going, going back to de home I love so well (first line of chorus)
Title:	The old log cabin in the dell : song and chorus
Composer:	White, C. A. (Charles Albert)
Publisher:	White, Smith & Co.
Date:	1875

First line/ Refrain:	I'se got a little baby (first line of text)
Title:	Hello! ma baby
Composer:	Howard, Joseph E. (Joseph Edgar)
Publisher:	T.B. Harms & Co.
Date:	1899

First line/ Refrain:	I'se got a little baby (first line of text)
Title:	Hello! ma baby
Composer:	Howard, Joseph E. (Joseph Edgar)
Publisher:	T. B. Harms & Co.
Date:	1899

First line/ Refrain:	I'se got a little yallah gal (first line of text)
Title:	My Manda belle : coon song & chorus
Composer:	Goldsmith, S. R.
Publisher:	M. Witmark & Sons
Date:	1902

First line/ Refrain:	I'se got de swellest gal (first line of text)
Title:	Liza Skinner : the cake walk winner
Composer:	Moray, N. H.
Publisher:	Zickel Bros.
Date:	1899

First line/ Refrain:	I'se watchin' by to see you shut dem eyes and go to sleep (first line of text)
Title:	You is ma coal black rose
Composer:	Berliner, Leo E.
Publisher:	Leo. E. Berliner & Co.
Date:	1899

First line/ Refrain:	I've been lonesome all day long (first line of text)
Title:	There'll come a time : when you'll feel lonely
Composer:	Brooks, Shelton
Publisher:	Harold Rossiter Music Co.
Date:	1911

First line/ Refrain:	I've been through Carolina (first line of text)
Title:	Belle ob Baltimore
Composer:	Evans, J. G.
Publisher:	E.H. Wade
Date:	1848

First line/ Refrain:	I've come to town to see you all (first line of text)
Title:	Long tail blue
Composer:
Publisher:	G. Willig Jr.
Date:	1840

First line/ Refrain:	I've got a Monday gal by the name of Sal (first line of chorus)
Title:	I've got a gal for ev'ry day in the week
Composer:	Von Tilzer, Harry
Publisher:	Shapiro, Bernstein & Von Tilzer
Date:	1900

First line/ Refrain:	I've got the blues my head is bowed in misery (first line of text)
Title:	The graveyard blues
Composer:	Woods, Clarence
Publisher:	Jos. W. Stern & Co.
Date:	1916

First line/ Refrain:	I've got the sugar blues (first line of chorus)
Title:	Sugar blues
Composer:	Williams, Clarence
Publisher:	Williams & Piron Music Pub.
Date:	1919

First line/ Refrain:	I've had a mighty busy day (first line of text)
Title:	When that midnight choo choo leaves for Alabam'
Composer:	Berlin, Irving
Publisher:	T. Snyder
Date:	1912

First line/ Refrain:	I've heard about an island, where it is I cannot say (first line of text)
Title:	The island of by and by
Composer:	Williams, Bert
Publisher:	Gotham Attucks
Date:	c1906

First line/ Refrain:	I've heard many beautiful songs in my time (first line of text)
Title:	Days of a short while ago
Composer:	Womack, E. P.
Publisher:	Veterans of Foreign Wars
Date:	1920

First line/ Refrain:	I've just dropt in to see you and sing a little song (first line of text)
Title:	The universal medley
Composer:
Publisher:	Published by Oliver Ditson [and 5 others]
Date:	1853

First line/ Refrain:	I've liv'd in Alabama where de coler'd race am plenty (first line of text)
Title:	Alabama Joe : the original, as sung by the Guinea Minstrels
Composer:
Publisher:	C. H. Keith
Date:	1834

First line/ Refrain:	I've never had exactly what I'd like to have in life (first line of text)
Title:	Gimme de leavins
Composer:	Cole, Bob
Publisher:	Jos. W. Stern & Co.
Date:	1904

First line/ Refrain:	I've wandered from my home and friends I loved so dear (first line of text)
Title:	De old church-yard in de lane, or Darling Minnie Gray
Composer:	Rutledge, John T.
Publisher:	F.W. Helmick
Date:	1875

First line/ Refrain:	Ice is floating in the stream (first line of text)
Title:	Eliza's flight : a scene from Uncle Tom's cabin
Composer:	Loder, E. J. (Edwin James)
Publisher:	Oliver Ditson
Date:	1852

First line/ Refrain:	If evah I should start in to cry, I'd cert'ny drown (first line of chorus)
Title:	The Spanish coon
Composer:	Beam, Mark
Publisher:	Sunday American
Date:	1904

First line/ Refrain:	If there's such things as Jonahs, I must be one for fair (first line of text)
Title:	No, no, positively no
Composer:	Smith, Chris
Publisher:	P.J. Howley Inc.
Date:	1907

First line/ Refrain:	If what you say is the positive truth, O death where is thy sting (first line of chorus)
Title:	O death where is thy sting
Composer:	Stout, Clarence A.
Publisher:	Pace & Handy Music Co.
Date:	c1920

First line/ Refrain:	If you are going to love me, love me at all (first line of chorus)
Title:	You've got to love me a lot
Composer:	Brockman, James
Publisher:	Seminary Music Co.
Date:	1907

First line/ Refrain:	If you don't like your job, well you'd better quit (first line of chorus)
Title:	If you don't like your job, quit!
Composer:	Hamilton, Wesley
Publisher:	Victor Kremer Co.
Date:	1905

First line/ Refrain:	If you ever chance to journey down Hindu way (first line of text)
Title:	Down in Hindu town
Composer:	Taylor, Tell
Publisher:	Tell Taylor Music Corp.
Date:	1919

First line/ Refrain:	If you lak-a-me lak I lak-a-you (first line of chorus)
Title:	Under the bamboo tree
Composer:	Cole, Bob
Publisher:	Jos. W. Stern & Co.
Date:	1902

First line/ Refrain:	If you love yo' babe, play that tune for me (first line of chorus)
Title:	Wild cherries : (coony, spoony rag)
Composer:	Snyder, Ted
Publisher:	Ted Snyder Co.
Date:	1909

First line/ Refrain:	If you saw a lion right in front of you (first line of chorus)
Title:	Daniel in the lion's den
Composer:	Fisher, Fred
Publisher:	McCarthy & Fisher
Date:	c1917

First line/ Refrain:	If you want to get religion (first line of text)
Title:	Hush your business, oh go on
Composer:	Levi, Maurice
Publisher:	M. Witmark & Sons
Date:	1895

First line/ Refrain:	If you want to pick a fuss, wait till the sun shines (first line of chorus)
Title:	If you want to pick a fuss wait till the sun shines : (I ain't a goin' to leave home in the rain)
Composer:	Hargreaves, William
Publisher:	Shapiro Music Publisher
Date:	1907

First line/ Refrain:	If you're such a great star, well-a why don't you shine (first line of chorus)
Title:	If you're such a great star, why don't you shine
Composer:	Jones, Irving
Publisher:	Leo Feist
Date:	1903

First line/ Refrain:	If you've got a little empty corner in your heart (first line of chorus)
Title:	Save it for me
Composer:	Cole, Bob
Publisher:	Jos. W. Stern & Co.
Date:	1903

First line/ Refrain:	In Africa there lives a queen (first line of text)
Title:	My lady hottentot
Composer:	Von Tilzer, Harry
Publisher:	Shapiro, Bernstein & Von Tilzer
Date:	1901

First line/ Refrain:	In an old big house, jes' as quiet as a mouse (first line of text)
Title:	Fortune telling man
Composer:	Williams, Bert
Publisher:	Jos. W. Stern & Co.
Date:	c1901

First line/ Refrain:	In Matabula's foreign shade (first line of text)
Title:	Show the white of yo' eyes
Composer:	Crawford, Stanley
Publisher:	Shapiro, Bernstein & Co.
Date:	1903

First line/ Refrain:	In me you see the product of the latest female fad (first line of text)
Title:	Parthenia Johnsing
Composer:	Cook, Will Marion
Publisher:	New York American and Journal
Date:	1902

First line/ Refrain:	In my dreams I seem to hear a whistle shrill (first line of text)
Title:	On the Mississippi
Composer:	Carroll, Harry
Publisher:	Shapiro Music Pub. Co.
Date:	1912

First line/ Refrain:	In my little bungalo built for two (first line of chorus)
Title:	Zulu love song
Composer:	Hofmann, Louis J.
Publisher:	A. Hospe Co.
Date:	1909

First line/ Refrain:	In nineteen sixty, you'll find Dixie, looking just the same (first line of chorus)
Title:	In 1960 you'll find Dixie looking just the same
Composer:	Gottler, Archie
Publisher:	Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co.
Date:	1918

First line/ Refrain:	In southern Alabama lived a girl whose name was Hanna (first line of text)
Title:	When that little yellow fellow plays piano : Hannah plays banjo
Composer:	Lindeman, David
Publisher:	Tell Taylor
Date:	1915

First line/ Refrain:	In sunny South Car'lina lives an old aunt Dinah (first line of text)
Title:	Good morning Carrie!
Composer:	Smith, Chris
Publisher:	Windsor Music Co.
Date:	1901

First line/ Refrain:	In the cool of de evenin' when de lovin' am good (first line of chorus)
Title:	In the cool of the evening : when de lovin' am good : song
Composer:	Stamper, Dave
Publisher:	Jerome H. Remick & Co.
Date:	1912

First line/ Refrain:	In the days of the sweet long ago (first line of text)
Title:	I want my mammy : (ballad fox-trot)
Composer:	Breau, Louis
Publisher:	Shapiro, Bernstein & Co.
Date:	1921

First line/ Refrain:	In the dixie section where the cotton grows (first line of text)
Title:	Mandy and me : song
Composer:	Gumble, Albert
Publisher:	Remick
Date:	1918

First line/ Refrain:	In the middle of his sermon, Parson Johnson 'rose and started sniffin' the air (first line of text) Oh! Bretheren, if you wants more preachin'
Title:	Save a little dram for me
Composer:	Skidmore, Will E.
Publisher:	Skidmore Music Co.
Date:	c1920

First line/ Refrain:	In this rosy land you know (first line of chorus)
Title:	You and I : waltz song
Composer:	Guy, Harry P.
Publisher:	Johnny Piggott Music Pub.
Date:	1921

First line/ Refrain:	In those dear old bandana days (first line of refrain)
Title:	Bandana days : novelty fox trot song
Composer:	Blake, Eubie
Publisher:	M. Witmark & Sons
Date:	1921

First line/ Refrain:	Indian two step
Title:	The Indian : two step
Composer:	Stone, Fred S.
Publisher:	Central Music Publishing Co.
Date:	1895

First line/ Refrain:	Ireland has her harp and shamrock (first line of chorus)
Title:	Every race has a flag but the coon
Composer:	Heelan, Will A.
Publisher:	Jos. W. Stern & Co.
Date:	1900

First line/ Refrain:	Irene, Irene blue eyes and golden hair (first line of chorus)
Title:	Irene : waltz song & chorus
Composer:	Shook, Benjamin
Publisher:	Grinnell Bros.
Date:	1906

First line/ Refrain:	Irene, Irene blue eyes and golden hair (first line of chorus)
Title:	Irene : waltz song
Composer:	Shook, Benjamin
Publisher:	Grinnell Bros.
Date:	1906

First line/ Refrain:	Irvinnatus Jones of the hambone pigs feet pork chop corterie (first line of text)
Title:	I think I see my brother coming now
Composer:	Helf, J. Fred
Publisher:	Helf & Hager
Date:	1908

First line/ Refrain:	Is there a letter in your bag (first line of text)
Title:	What's the matter with the mail?
Composer:	Wenrich, Percy
Publisher:	Fred J. Hamill
Date:	1904

First line/ Refrain:	It was down in South Car'lina (first line of text)
Title:	Mammy's Carolina twins : Southern lullaby
Composer:	Johnson, Lee
Publisher:	Lee Johnson & Co.
Date:	1899

First line/ Refrain:	It's a holiday, ev'rything is gay (first line of text)
Title:	Melinda's wedding day
Composer:	Piantadosi, Al
Publisher:	Leo Feist
Date:	1913

First line/ Refrain:	It's mighty strange! (first line of chorus)
Title:	Much obliged to you
Composer:	Burt, Benjamin Hapgood
Publisher:	Jerome H. Remick & Co.
Date:	1907

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