Lyrics of first lines and refrains

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First line/ Refrain:	"Good time coming" is almost her (first line of chorus)
Title:	Wake Nicodemus : song and chorus
Composer:	Work, Henry C. (Henry Clay)
Publisher:	Wm. B. Bradbury
Date:	1864

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

First line/ Refrain:	Gather roun ye darkies all (first line of text)
Title:	The Negro emancipation song
Composer:	Webster, Joseph Philbrick
Publisher:	H.M. Higgins
Date:	1862

First line/ Refrain:	George Washington so his'try says would never tell a lie (first line of text)
Title:	Somebody lied
Composer:	Branen, Jeff T.
Publisher:	Will Rossiter
Date:	c1907

First line/ Refrain:	Get your money's worth (first line of chorus)
Title:	Get your money's worth : instructions from the boss
Composer:	Jones, Irving
Publisher:	F.A. Mills
Date:	1897

First line/ Refrain:	Give me just one loving smile (first line of chorus)
Title:	Ev'ry little bit helps
Composer:	Fisher, Fred
Publisher:	Harry Von Tilzer Music Pub. Co.
Date:	1904

First line/ Refrain:	Give me shelter, grub and my spending change (first line of chorus)
Title:	Give me shelter, grub and spending change : then I'll be satisfied
Composer:	Henderson, Adolph
Publisher:	Will Rossiter
Date:	1907

First line/ Refrain:	Glory! Glory! How the freedmen sang! (first line of chorus)
Title:	Glory! Glory! or, The little octoroon : song & chorus
Composer:	Root, George F. (George Frederick)
Publisher:	Root & Cady
Date:	1866

First line/ Refrain:	Go to sleep (first line of chorus)
Title:	Mammy's little pumpkin colored coons : plantation slumber song
Composer:	Perrin, Sidney
Publisher:	M. Witmark & Sons
Date:	1897

First line/ Refrain:	Go to sleep ma Carolina twins (first line of chorus)
Title:	Mammy's Carolina twins : Southern lullaby
Composer:	Johnson, Lee
Publisher:	Lee Johnson & Co.
Date:	1899

First line/ Refrain:	Go to sleep my darlin' cause it's nightie night (first line of chorus)
Title:	Nightie night : (kiss yo' mammy nightie night)
Composer:	Elliott, Eddie
Publisher:	Pace & Handy Music Co. Inc.
Date:	1917

First line/ Refrain:	Go to sleep my little drowsy baby close yo' eyes (first line of chorus)
Title:	My drowsy babe
Composer:	Nichols, George A.
Publisher:	Shapiro, Bernstein & Von Tilzer
Date:	1900

First line/ Refrain:	Go to sleep my little picaninny (first line of chorus)
Title:	Little Alabama coon
Composer:	Starr, Hattie
Publisher:	Willis Woodward & Co.
Date:	1893

First line/ Refrain:	Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay (first line of text)
Title:	Old black Joe
Composer:	Foster, Stephen Collins
Publisher:	Chicago Music Co.
Date:	1900

First line/ Refrain:	Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay (first line of text)
Title:	Old black Joe
Composer:	Foster, Stephen Collins
Publisher:	De Luxe Music Co.
Date:	1910

First line/ Refrain:	Good bye old massa I'se a dying (first line of text)
Title:	Uncle Tom's farewell
Composer:	Benson, E. A.
Publisher:	E.A. Benson
Date:	1878

First line/ Refrain:	Good ev'ning Mister Johnson, I received your note (first line of text)
Title:	Mister Johnson, good night
Composer:	Ingraham, Herbert
Publisher:	Maurice Shapiro
Date:	1910

First line/ Refrain:	Good luck wans me, dorns me, scorns me, constantly (first line of chorus)
Title:	Constantly
Composer:	Williams, Bert
Publisher:	Remick Music Corp.
Date:	1922?

First line/ Refrain:	Good luck wans me, dorns me, scorns me, constantly (first line of chorus)
Title:	Constantly
Composer:	Williams, Bert
Publisher:	Jerome H. Remick & Co.
Date:	c1910

First line/ Refrain:	Good-bye you good for nothing Andy (first line of chorus)
Title:	Moses Andrew Jackson, good-bye
Composer:	Snyder, Ted
Publisher:	F.A. Mills
Date:	1906

First line/ Refrain:	Got de St Louis blues jes blue as ah can be (first line of chorus)
Title:	The St. Louis blues
Composer:	Handy, W. C. (William Christopher)
Publisher:	Pace & Handy Music Co.
Date:	1914

First line/ Refrain:	Great big tree grows near our house (first line of text)
Title:	Woodman, woodman, spare that tree!
Composer:	Berlin, Irving
Publisher:	ABC Music Corp.
Date:	[1939?], c1911

First line/ Refrain:	Great scott, I think I see my brother coming home right now! (first line of chorus)
Title:	I think I see my brother coming now
Composer:	Helf, J. Fred
Publisher:	Helf & Hager
Date:	1908

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