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First line/ Refrain:	Kate you remember that promise you gave (first line of chorus)
Title:	Now for a stranger don't cast me aside : song and chorus
Composer:	Guy, Harry P.
Publisher:	Whitney Warner Pub. Co.,
Date:	1898

First line/ Refrain:	'Liza, 'Liza, come out and I'll suprise ye' (first line of chorus)
Title:	'Liza
Composer:	Van Alstyne, Egbert
Publisher:	Jerome H. Remick & Co.
Date:	1909

First line/ Refrain:	'Liza, 'Liza, come out and I'll suprise ye' (first line of chorus)
Title:	'Liza
Composer:	Van Alstyne, Egbert
Publisher:	Jerome H. Remick & Co.
Date:	1909

First line/ Refrain:	Landlord said this morning to me (first line of text)
Title:	Moving day
Composer:	Von Tilzer, Harry
Publisher:	Harry Von Tilzer Music Pub. Co.
Date:	1906

First line/ Refrain:	Last night I took dinner with the king of Spain (first line of text)
Title:	I must have been a dreamin'
Composer:	Cole, Bob
Publisher:	The Morse Music Co.
Date:	1900

First line/ Refrain:	Last night the darkies gave a rag time ball (first line of text)
Title:	Get your money's worth : instructions from the boss
Composer:	Jones, Irving
Publisher:	F.A. Mills
Date:	1897

First line/ Refrain:	Last week I had my fortune told (first line of text)
Title:	Buzzin' around
Composer:	Barnes, Paul
Publisher:	Howley, Haviland & Dresser
Date:	1903

First line/ Refrain:	Lazy moon! come out soon! (first line of text)
Title:	Lazy moon
Composer:	Johnson, J. Rosamond (John Rosamond)
Publisher:	Jos. W. Stern
Date:	1903

First line/ Refrain:	Le-let me dow-ha down easy, you'll never see me here no more (first line of chorus)
Title:	Let me down easy, or, The machinery man
Composer:	Farrel, Tom
Publisher:	Will Rossiter Publisher
Date:	1906

First line/ Refrain:	Leader of the Blackville club arose last Labor night (first line of text)
Title:	Every race has a flag but the coon
Composer:	Heelan, Will A.
Publisher:	Jos. W. Stern & Co.
Date:	1900

First line/ Refrain:	Leave this house when you get your trunk packed (first line of chorus)
Title:	Take your clothes and go
Composer:	Jones, Irving
Publisher:	Jos. W. Stern & Co.
Date:	1897

First line/ Refrain:	Lilac trees a blooming in the corner by the gate (first line of text)
Title:	Stay in your own backyard : pathetic ballad & refrain
Composer:	Udall, Lyn
Publisher:	M. Witmark & Sons
Date:	1899

First line/ Refrain:	Lincoln, Washington and Sherman Jefferson are fighting in the infantry (first line of chorus)
Title:	Mammy Jinny's hall of fame : song
Composer:	Tierney, Harry (Harry Austin)
Publisher:	Jerome H. Remick & Co.
Date:	1917

First line/ Refrain:	Lindy Lou and Jasper in the fields of sugar cane (first line of text)
Title:	Sugar moon
Composer:	Wenrich, Percy
Publisher:	Jerome H. Remick & Co.
Date:	1910

First line/ Refrain:	Listen folks I'm goin' to tell to you (first line of text)
Title:	Nigger war bride blues
Composer:	Le Blanc, Mitch
Publisher:	Thos. Goggan & Bro.
Date:	1917

First line/ Refrain:	Listen sisters and brothers (first line of text)
Title:	Lovin' Sam : (the sheik of Alabam)
Composer:	Ager, Milton
Publisher:	Ager, Yellen & Bornstein Inc.
Date:	1922

First line/ Refrain:	Listen, listen, listen at that dreamy music playing (first line of text)
Title:	At the ball, that's all
Composer:	Hill, J. Leubrie (John Leubrie)
Publisher:	Jerome H. Remick & Co.
Date:	1913

First line/ Refrain:	Little colored child (first line of text)
Title:	Little puff of smoke, good night : a southern croon
Composer:	White, G. Harris
Publisher:	Victor Kremer Co.
Date:	1910

First line/ Refrain:	Little colored child (first line of text)
Title:	Little puff of smoke, good night : a southern croon
Composer:	White, G. Harris
Publisher:	Victor Kremer Co.
Date:	1910

First line/ Refrain:	Little gal
Title:	Li'l gal : song
Composer:	Johnson, J. Rosamond (John Rosamond)
Publisher:	Jos. W. Stern & Co.
Date:	1917

First line/ Refrain:	Little yaller pickaninny (first line of text)
Title:	Pickaninny snuggle song
Composer:	Smith, Wilson
Publisher:	O. Ditson
Date:	1916

First line/ Refrain:	Lizard on de fence rail (first line of text)
Title:	Let Miss Lindy pass
Composer:	Rogers, Winthrop L.
Publisher:	G. Schirmer
Date:	1909

First line/ Refrain:	Lizard on de fence rail (first line of text)
Title:	Let Miss Lindy pass
Composer:	Rogers, Winthrop L.
Publisher:	G. Schirmer
Date:	1909

First line/ Refrain:	Lonely starved, at midnight dreary (first line of text)
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:	Long 'fore dis time, dis darky dwelt in a place call'd Tuscanoe (first line of text)
Title:	Cynthia Sue : as sung by Christy's Minstrels
Composer:
Publisher:	C. Holt, Jr.
Date:	1848

First line/ Refrain:	Look here Alexander (first line of text)
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:	Look here, Henry Darbaco, what makes you fret and pout (first line of text)
Title:	Slip your glad rags on and come with me!
Composer:	Armstrong, Harry
Publisher:	M. Witmark & Sons
Date:	1910

First line/ Refrain:	Look of gloomy bitter sadness (first line of text)
Title:	Poor Uncle Tom : song & chorus
Composer:	Sedgwick, A.
Publisher:	Wm. Vanderbeek
Date:	1852

First line/ Refrain:	Look out dar now (first line of chorus)
Title:	Babylon is fallen!
Composer:	Work, Henry C. (Henry Clay)
Publisher:	S. Brainard's Sons Co.
Date:	1885

First line/ Refrain:	Look out dar now (first line of chorus)
Title:	Babylon is fallen! : song and chorus
Composer:	Work, Henry C. (Henry Clay)
Publisher:	Root & Cady
Date:	1863

First line/ Refrain:	Look out keep talkin' (first line of chorus)
Title:	The bos'n rag : cake walk
Composer:	Stone, Fred S.
Publisher:	Whitney Warner Pub. Co.
Date:	1899

First line/ Refrain:	Lou, Lou, I lub you (first line of chorus)
Title:	Louisiana Lou : song
Composer:	Stuart, Leslie
Publisher:	T.B. Harms & Co.
Date:	1894

First line/ Refrain:	Loud wind roar'd the rain fell fast the white man yielded to the blast (first line of text)
Title:	African song
Composer:	Ferrari, G. G. (Giacomo Gotifredo)
Publisher:	printed for the author, & to be had of him 34, Great Malborough Street.
Date:	1799

First line/ Refrain:	Love and home forever
Title:	That home in paradise : love and home forever
Composer:	Guy, Harry P.
Publisher:	J. Piggott Music Publisher
Date:	1921

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