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First line/ Refrain:	H'm, h'm, when I was a little baby (first line of text)
Title:	Doan ye cry, ma honey : darky song
Composer:	Noll, Albert W.
Publisher:	O. Ditson Co.
Date:	1899

First line/ Refrain:	Haitian rag
Title:	Haytian rag
Composer:	Dabney, Ford T.
Publisher:	Jerome H. Remick & Co.
Date:	1910

First line/ Refrain:	Hang up the shovel and the hoe, the hoe (first line of chorus)
Title:	Uncle Ned : the popular Negro ballad
Composer:	Foster, Stephen Collins
Publisher:	J. Allen
Date:	18XX

First line/ Refrain:	Happy, happy, happy little bird am I (first line of text)
Title:	I've got the finest man
Composer:	Europe, James Reese
Publisher:	Waterson, Berlin & Snyder
Date:	1912

First line/ Refrain:	Hard, hard luck, well I guess that I have had my share (first line of text)
Title:	Sympathy : (don't worry Bill)
Composer:	Kendis, James
Publisher:	Jerome H. Remick & Co.
Date:	1905

First line/ Refrain:	Hard, hard luck, well I guess that I have had my share (first line of text)
Title:	Sympathy : a coon plaint
Composer:	Kendis, James
Publisher:	J.H. Remick
Date:	1905

First line/ Refrain:	Have yo' heard about dat bully (first line of text)
Title:	May Irwin's Bully song : as sung with great success in the "Widow Jones"
Composer:	Trevathan, Charles E.
Publisher:	The Journal
Date:	1896

First line/ Refrain:	Have you ever heard this tune (first line of text)
Title:	The old time rag
Composer:	Morse, Theodore F.
Publisher:	F.B. Haviland Pub. Co.
Date:	1908

First line/ Refrain:	Have you heard it (first line of text)
Title:	That da-da strain
Composer:	Dowell, Edgar
Publisher:	Clarence Williams Music Pub. Co.
Date:	1922

First line/ Refrain:	Have you heard of Isac Jones (first line of text)
Title:	A hot coon from Klondike
Composer:	Metz, Theodore A.
Publisher:	Metz Music Co.
Date:	1898

First line/ Refrain:	Have you heard these blues (first line of text)
Title:	Sugar blues
Composer:	Williams, Clarence
Publisher:	Williams & Piron Music Pub.
Date:	1919

First line/ Refrain:	He done me wrong and throwed me right in (first line of chorus)
Title:	He done me wrong : (death of Bill Bailey)
Composer:	Cannon, Hughie L.
Publisher:	Howley, Dresser Co.
Date:	1904

First line/ Refrain:	He walked with a regular Palmer House glide (first line of chorus)
Title:	Melancholy Mose
Composer:	Jerome, Benjamin M.
Publisher:	Howley, Haviland & Dresser
Date:	1901

First line/ Refrain:	He'll freeze your little toes (first line of chorus)
Title:	The bugaboo man
Composer:	Nicol, J. E.
Publisher:	N.Y. World
Date:	1900

First line/ Refrain:	He's my friend from my home (first line of chorus)
Title:	My friend from my home
Composer:	Douglas, Fred
Publisher:	Harry Von Tilzer Music Pub. Co.
Date:	1902

First line/ Refrain:	Hear that whistle a blowing (first line of text)
Title:	Down in dear old New Orleans
Composer:	Conrad, Con
Publisher:	Jerome H. Remick & Co.
Date:	1912

First line/ Refrain:	Hear the steamboat whistle blowing (first line of text)
Title:	Honey I will long for you
Composer:	Edwards, Ed
Publisher:	Jos. Morris Co.
Date:	1910

First line/ Refrain:	Hear those cotton pickers moan, hear the deacon's baritone (first line of chorus)
Title:	Cotton Hollow harmony : song
Composer:	Whiting, Richard A.
Publisher:	Jerome H. Remick & Co.
Date:	1918

First line/ Refrain:	Hello! ma baby (first line of chorus)
Title:	Hello! ma baby
Composer:	Howard, Joseph E. (Joseph Edgar)
Publisher:	T. B. Harms & Co.
Date:	1899

First line/ Refrain:	Hello! ma baby (first line of chorus)
Title:	Hello! ma baby
Composer:	Howard, Joseph E. (Joseph Edgar)
Publisher:	T.B. Harms & Co.
Date:	1899

First line/ Refrain:	Henry Green said to William Brown (first line of text)
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:	Henry Mason was about all in (first line of text)
Title:	I'm jes a cleanin' up
Composer:	Sully, Lew
Publisher:	Lake View Music Pub. Co.
Date:	1906

First line/ Refrain:	Here is my old cabin home (first line of chorus)
Title:	The old cabin home
Composer:	Paine, T.
Publisher:	Henry Tolman
Date:	1857

First line/ Refrain:	Here they come down the street (first line of text)
Title:	The pullman porters on parade
Composer:	Abrahams, Maurice
Publisher:	Maurice Abrahams
Date:	1913

First line/ Refrain:	Here they come, just listen to that drum (first line of chorus)
Title:	Rufe Johnson's Harmony Band
Composer:	Brooks, Shelton
Publisher:	Maurice Abrahams Music Co.
Date:	1914

First line/ Refrain:	Honey bees, de summer breeze (first line of text)
Title:	Evalyne
Composer:	Dresser, Paul
Publisher:	Paul Dresser Pub. Co.
Date:	1905

First line/ Refrain:	Honey do you want to take a trip (first line of text)
Title:	Underneath the cotton moon
Composer:	Meyer, George W.
Publisher:	G.W. Meyer
Date:	1913

First line/ Refrain:	Honey does yer think my money grows on trees (first line of chorus)
Title:	It's up to you to move
Composer:	Rogers, Ed
Publisher:	Ed. Rogers Music Pub. Co.
Date:	1906

First line/ Refrain:	Honey I'm waitin, you're aggravatin (first line of chorus)
Title:	Honey I'm waiting
Composer:	Barron, Ted S.
Publisher:	Leo Feist
Date:	1904

First line/ Refrain:	Honey my heart will pine for you (first line of chorus)
Title:	Honey I will long for you
Composer:	Edwards, Ed
Publisher:	Jos. Morris Co.
Date:	1910

First line/ Refrain:	Honey suckle twines around the dear old cabin door (first line of chorus)
Title:	The darkey's home sweet home
Composer:	Baer, Charles E.
Publisher:	Jos. Morris
Date:	1899

First line/ Refrain:	Honey! Honey! bless yo' heart (first line of chorus)
Title:	Honey, dat I love so well : a dainty darkey ditty
Composer:	Freeman, Harry
Publisher:	M. Witmark & Sons
Date:	1898

First line/ Refrain:	Honey, did you heah dat mockin' bird sing las' night (first line of text)
Title:	Mah Lindy Lou
Composer:	Strickland, Lily
Publisher:	G. Schirmer
Date:	1920

First line/ Refrain:	Honey, don't play me no op'ra (first line of chorus)
Title:	Paradise blues : oh! pretty papa! oh! pretty papa!
Composer:	Williams, Spencer
Publisher:	Frank K. Root & Co.
Date:	1916

First line/ Refrain:	Honey, I'm awaitin', waitin' for you (first line of text)
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:	Honey, O honey, O honey town (first line of chorus)
Title:	Honey town : a plantation lullaby
Composer:	Widener, Stanley F.
Publisher:	Theo. Presser
Date:	1906

First line/ Refrain:	Honey, the moon am ashinin' (first line of text)
Title:	Mandy, how do you do
Composer:	Wenrich, Percy
Publisher:	Jerome H. Remick
Date:	1909

First line/ Refrain:	Hot coon from Klondike (first line of chorus)
Title:	A hot coon from Klondike
Composer:	Metz, Theodore A.
Publisher:	Metz Music Co.
Date:	1898

First line/ Refrain:	Hot corn (first line of chorus)
Title:	Katy's cry : come and buy my hot corn, song and chorus
Composer:	Woodbury, I. B. (Isaac Baker)
Publisher:	Horace Waters
Date:	1853

First line/ Refrain:	Hot corn, good and greasy (first line of chorus)
Title:	Hot corn
Composer:	Smith, Chris
Publisher:	Jerome H. Remick
Date:	1908

First line/ Refrain:	How de do Miss Mandy (first line of chorus)
Title:	Mandy, how do you do
Composer:	Wenrich, Percy
Publisher:	Jerome H. Remick
Date:	1909

First line/ Refrain:	Howdy do, I have for you (first line of text)
Title:	Tell me, dusky maiden : a travesty
Composer:	Johnson, J. Rosamond (John Rosamond)
Publisher:	Howley, Haviland & Dresser
Date:	1901

First line/ Refrain:	Hungry looking coon just come to town (first line of text)
Title:	I ain't seen no messenger boy
Composer:	Bivins, Nathan
Publisher:	Hugo V. Schlam
Date:	1899

First line/ Refrain:	Hurrah for old glory and the U.S.A. (first line of chorus)
Title:	We'll stand by our flag and the U.S.A.
Composer:	Guy, Harry P.
Publisher:	John W. Goodson
Date:	1917

First line/ Refrain:	Hush a bye o baby (first line of chorus)
Title:	A Georgia lullaby : hush-a-bye o'-baby
Composer:	Pigott, R. Stuart
Publisher:	s.n.
Date:	1901

First line/ Refrain:	Hush babe, don' cry lak dat no mo' (first line of chorus)
Title:	The hush song : a plantation lullaby
Composer:	Cooper, M. B.
Publisher:	Dickens Co.
Date:	1903

First line/ Refrain:	Hush babe, it's time fo' you to sleep (first line of text)
Title:	The hush song : a plantation lullaby
Composer:	Cooper, M. B.
Publisher:	Dickens Co.
Date:	1903

First line/ Refrain:	Hush my love (first line of chorus)
Title:	Hush my little coon
Composer:	Wheeler, J. W. (James W.)
Publisher:	The Sunday World
Date:	1898

First line/ Refrain:	Hush yo' bus'ness (first line of chorus)
Title:	Hush your business, oh go on
Composer:	Levi, Maurice
Publisher:	M. Witmark & Sons
Date:	1895

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