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First line/ Refrain:	'Tis just one year ago to day, that I remember well (first line of text)
Title:	Poor old slave
Composer:	Griffin, G. W. H. (George W. H.)
Publisher:	G.P. Reed & Co.
Date:	1851

First line/ Refrain:	'Twas in a southern grove I dwelt (first line of text)
Title:	Young folks at home
Composer:	Livingston, Hattie
Publisher:	Gould & Berry
Date:	1852

First line/ Refrain:	'Twas on one dark and stormy night when the wind was blowing cold and fast (first line of text)
Title:	If you don't change your living, that's the way you'll die
Composer:	Bivins, Nathan
Publisher:	Nathan Bivins
Date:	1907

First line/ Refrain:	Talk about a coon a having trouble (first line of text)
Title:	All coons look alike to me
Composer:	Hogan, Ernest
Publisher:	M. Witmark
Date:	1896

First line/ Refrain:	Talk about your Arabian nights (first line of text)
Title:	When it's night time in Dixie Land
Composer:	Berlin, Irving
Publisher:	Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co.
Date:	1914

First line/ Refrain:	Talk of yo' looney coons (first line of text)
Title:	Wild cherries : (coony, spoony rag)
Composer:	Snyder, Ted
Publisher:	Ted Snyder Co.
Date:	1909

First line/ Refrain:	Talk of yuh cake walk winners dere's none like 'Liza Skinner (first line of chorus)
Title:	Liza Skinner : the cake walk winner
Composer:	Moray, N. H.
Publisher:	Zickel Bros.
Date:	1899

First line/ Refrain:	Tell me what you does with all your money, says Phoebe (first line of text)
Title:	Phoebe : an Ethiopian lullaby
Composer:	Mack, Andrew
Publisher:	T.B. Harms & Co.
Date:	1894

First line/ Refrain:	Tell me, brother tell me what's this all about (first line of text)
Title:	Mammy Jinny's jubilee
Composer:	Muir, Lewis F.
Publisher:	F. A. Mills
Date:	1913

First line/ Refrain:	Tell me, tell me, who is that little girl in blue (first line of text)
Title:	Bo-Peep : song
Composer:	Cook, Doc
Publisher:	Jerome H. Remick Co.
Date:	1916

First line/ Refrain:	Thar is gwine to be a festival this evenin' (first line of text)
Title:	My gal is a high born lady : song and chorus
Composer:	Fagan, Barney
Publisher:	M. Witmark & Sons
Date:	1896

First line/ Refrain:	That Eve stole first and Adam second (first line of chorus)
Title:	Brother Noah gave out checks for rain
Composer:	Longbrake, Arthur
Publisher:	Jos. Morris
Date:	1907

First line/ Refrain:	That gal of mine she is a perfect lady (first line of text)
Title:	You don't stop the world from going round
Composer:	Hylands, Fred
Publisher:	Hylands, Spencer & Yeager
Date:	1899

First line/ Refrain:	That man Adam was the luckiest man (first line of chorus)
Title:	Rip Van Winkle was a lucky man : but Adam had him beat a mile
Composer:	Smith, Chris
Publisher:	Shapiro
Date:	1909

First line/ Refrain:	That quaint Saint Vitus rag (first line of chorus)
Title:	The Saint Vitus rag : song
Composer:	Johnson, J. Rosamond (John Rosamond)
Publisher:	Jerome H. Remick & Co.
Date:	1912

First line/ Refrain:	That tragedy was on the wane there's not the slightest doubt (first line of text)
Title:	Julie
Composer:	Schwartz, Jean
Publisher:	Shapiro, Bernstein and Co.
Date:	1903

First line/ Refrain:	Then cheer up Sally do (first line of chorus)
Title:	Good bye Sally dear
Composer:	Howard, Frank
Publisher:	O. Ditson
Date:	1849

First line/ Refrain:	There ain't a goin' to be a bit of fancy dancin' (first line of chorus)
Title:	Below the Mason-Dixon line
Composer:	Reed, David
Publisher:	Maurice Shapiro
Date:	1910

First line/ Refrain:	There are two eyes to which the sun can not new luster lend (first line of text)
Title:	Two eyes
Composer:	Johnson, J. Rosamond (John Rosamond)
Publisher:	Jos. W. Stern & Co.
Date:	1903

First line/ Refrain:	There is a yaller gal, she lives up yonder (first line of text)
Title:	She certainly looks good to me
Composer:	Bivins, Nathan
Publisher:	Howley, Haviland & Dresser
Date:	1903

First line/ Refrain:	There is no flag unfurled to the breeze that looks so good to me (first line of text)
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:	There lived in a town with a great long name (first line of text)
Title:	Four little curly headed coons
Composer:	Wheeler, J. W. (James W.)
Publisher:	S. W. Blair
Date:	1889

First line/ Refrain:	There was a coon named Jackson had an awful disposition (first line of text)
Title:	My friend from my home
Composer:	Douglas, Fred
Publisher:	Harry Von Tilzer Music Pub. Co.
Date:	1902

First line/ Refrain:	There was once a soldier boy (first line of text)
Title:	Aw Sammie!
Composer:	O'Hara, Geoffrey
Publisher:	Leo Feist, Inc.
Date:	1918

First line/ Refrain:	There'll be some celebration for Mandy and me (first line of chorus)
Title:	Mandy and me : song
Composer:	Gumble, Albert
Publisher:	Remick
Date:	1918

First line/ Refrain:	There's a charming dark eyed little lassie that I know (first line of text)
Title:	The little gypsy maid
Composer:	Cook, Will Marion
Publisher:	Harry von Tilzer
Date:	1902

First line/ Refrain:	There's a land that is so far away it's near no place at all (first line of text)
Title:	On the island of Koo-Koo : (a nutty novelty)
Composer:	Breau, Louis
Publisher:	Belwin Inc.
Date:	1921

First line/ Refrain:	There's a little cottage standing on the Susquehanna shore (first line of chorus)
Title:	The home of the girl I love
Composer:	Graham, Howard
Publisher:	New York Journal and Advertiser
Date:	1900

First line/ Refrain:	There's a little pickaninny and he lives far away (first line of text)
Title:	When mammy's pickaninny's fast asleep : slumber song
Composer:	Martin, John
Publisher:	Zickel Bros.
Date:	1898

First line/ Refrain:	There's a low green valley on the old Kentucky shore (first line of text)
Title:	Darling Nelly Gray
Composer:	Hanby, Benjamin Russel
Publisher:	Oliver Ditson
Date:	1907

First line/ Refrain:	There's a low green valley on the old Kentucky shore (first line of text)
Title:	Darling Nelly Gray : song and chorus
Composer:	Hanby, Benjamin Russel
Publisher:	O. Ditson
Date:	1856

First line/ Refrain:	There's a saying going 'round (first line of text)
Title:	I ain't got nobody much and nobody cares for me
Composer:	Williams, Spencer
Publisher:	McKinley Music Co.
Date:	1916

First line/ Refrain:	There's a saying going 'round (first line of text)
Title:	I ain't got nobody much and nobody cares for me
Composer:	Williams, Spencer
Publisher:	Frank K. Root & Co.
Date:	1916

First line/ Refrain:	There's a scandal in the neighborhood (first line of text)
Title:	He's a cousin of mine
Composer:	Smith, Chris
Publisher:	Gotham-Attucks Music Co.
Date:	1906

First line/ Refrain:	There's a southern rose (first line of text)
Title:	Oh! how I miss you mammy
Composer:	Squires, Harry D.
Publisher:	A.J. Stasny Music Co.
Date:	1920

First line/ Refrain:	There's a spot in Alabama, where the birds sing all the day (first line of text)
Title:	The darkey's home sweet home
Composer:	Baer, Charles E.
Publisher:	Jos. Morris
Date:	1899

First line/ Refrain:	There's an old cabin on the Swanee shore (first line of text)
Title:	Mandy Lane
Composer:	McKenna, William J.
Publisher:	Remick
Date:	1908

First line/ Refrain:	They built a little garden for the rose (first line of chorus)
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:	They got a fiddler there that always slickens his hair, an' folks he sure do pull some bow (first line of chorus)
Title:	The Memphis blues : a Southern rag
Composer:	Handy, W. C. (William Christopher)
Publisher:	Theron C. Bennett Co.
Date:	1913

First line/ Refrain:	They say the course of true love never does run smooth (first line of text)
Title:	Goodbye Lou
Composer:	Friedlander, William B.
Publisher:	Will Rossiter
Date:	1907

First line/ Refrain:	They tell me that I am now free (first line of text)
Title:	The freedman's lament : song and chorus
Composer:	Ladd, M. B.
Publisher:	Horace Waters
Date:	1866

First line/ Refrain:	This beautiful island of by and by where ev'rything delights the eye (first line of chorus)
Title:	The island of by and by
Composer:	Williams, Bert
Publisher:	Gotham Attucks
Date:	c1906

First line/ Refrain:	This is a world where trouble never dies (first line of text)
Title:	Everybody has a trouble of his own
Composer:	Talbert, Harry C.
Publisher:	W.A. Evans & Bro.
Date:	1885

First line/ Refrain:	This world seems nothing but sorrow (first line of text)
Title:	Since you went away
Composer:	Brooks, Shelton
Publisher:	Lew Berk Music Co.
Date:	1915

First line/ Refrain:	Thou art the soul of a summer's day (first line of text)
Title:	Who knows? : song
Composer:	Ball, Ernest R.
Publisher:	M. Witmark & Sons
Date:	1909

First line/ Refrain:	Thou art the soul of a summer's day (first line of text)
Title:	Who knows? : song
Composer:	Ball, Ernest R.
Publisher:	M. Witmark & Sons
Date:	1909

First line/ Refrain:	Thou art the soul of a summer's day (first line of text)
Title:	Who knows? : song
Composer:	Ball, Ernest R.
Publisher:	M. Witmark & Sons
Date:	1909

First line/ Refrain:	Time to sleep and rest (first line of chorus)
Title:	Little puff of smoke, good night : a southern croon
Composer:	White, G. Harris
Publisher:	Victor Kremer Co.
Date:	1910

First line/ Refrain:	Time to sleep and rest (first line of chorus)
Title:	Little puff of smoke, good night : a southern croon
Composer:	White, G. Harris
Publisher:	Victor Kremer Co.
Date:	1910

First line/ Refrain:	Tis just a year ago today that I remember well (first line of text)
Title:	Good old Jeff
Composer:	Griffin, G. W. H. (George W. H.)
Publisher:	G.P. Reed
Date:	1853

First line/ Refrain:	Tis many a night since first we met (first line of chorus)
Title:	The old pine tree : a favorite Ethiopian song
Composer:	White, Charles
Publisher:	Firth, Pond & Co.
Date:	1849

First line/ Refrain:	Tis many a night since first we met (first line of chorus)
Title:	The old pine tree
Composer:	White, Charles
Publisher:	Firth, Pond & Co.
Date:	1849

First line/ Refrain:	Today I meets big Moses Jackson limpin' down de street (first line of text)
Title:	I makes mine myself
Composer:	Bowers, Robert Hood
Publisher:	Shapiro, Bernstein & Co.
Date:	c1921

First line/ Refrain:	Tom Beasly worked in a livery barn, very seldom he went out (first line of text) When I'm promenading with my lady friend, don't notice me (first line of chorus)
Title:	Don't notice me
Composer:	Snyder, Ted
Publisher:	F.A. Mills
Date:	c1906

First line/ Refrain:	Trouble :
Title:	Trouble
Composer:	Meakim, Fletcher
Publisher:	M. Witmark & Sons
Date:	1902

First line/ Refrain:	Trouble well I guess dat's trouble (first line of chorus)
Title:	Trouble
Composer:	Meakim, Fletcher
Publisher:	M. Witmark & Sons
Date:	1902

First line/ Refrain:	Tune that won the ham for that coon band
Title:	A coon band contest or The tune that won the ham for that coon band
Composer:	Pryor, Arthur
Publisher:	Chicago American
Date:	1903, c1899

First line/ Refrain:	Twang, twang de banjo rang (first line of chorus)
Title:	Rosa Ginger
Composer:
Publisher:	Vanderbeek's
Date:	1849

First line/ Refrain:	Twas me that shot was chasing and advice I didn't need (first line of chorus)
Title:	I certainly was going some
Composer:	Vodery, Will H.
Publisher:	Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co.
Date:	c1913

First line/ Refrain:	Two sweethearts courted happily for quite a while (first line of text)
Title:	Some of these days
Composer:	Brooks, Shelton
Publisher:	Will Rossiter
Date:	1910

First line/ Refrain:	Two sweethearts in a country town, the neighbors say (first line of text)
Title:	Some of these days
Composer:	Brooks, Shelton
Publisher:	Will Rossiter
Date:	1922

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