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First line/ Refrain:	'Deed she cert'nly looks good to me (first line of chorus)
Title:	She certainly looks good to me
Composer:	Bivins, Nathan
Publisher:	Howley, Haviland & Dresser
Date:	1903

First line/ Refrain:	Da da da da (first line of chorus)
Title:	That da-da strain
Composer:	Dowell, Edgar
Publisher:	Clarence Williams Music Pub. Co.
Date:	1922

First line/ Refrain:	Dancing in the moonlight on a bright night (first line of chorus)
Title:	Down in dear old New Orleans
Composer:	Conrad, Con
Publisher:	Jerome H. Remick & Co.
Date:	1912

First line/ Refrain:	Dar was on ole nigger (first line of text)
Title:	My unkle Ned
Composer:	Foster, Stephen Collins
Publisher:	Atwill
Date:	1848

First line/ Refrain:	Dar's a colored bud ob beauty (first line of text)
Title:	Ma blushin' Rosie : ma posie sweet
Composer:	Stromberg, John
Publisher:	M. Witmark & Sons
Date:	1900

First line/ Refrain:	Dar's a funny little bunch of dusky sweetness (first line of text)
Title:	My drowsy babe
Composer:	Nichols, George A.
Publisher:	Shapiro, Bernstein & Von Tilzer
Date:	1900

First line/ Refrain:	Dar's a lil' ole brown cabin in Virginia (first line of text)
Title:	Lil' ole brown cabin
Composer:	Cox, Lytton
Publisher:	T.S. Denison & Co.
Date:	1918

First line/ Refrain:	Dar's a little coffee colored imp of trouble (first line of text)
Title:	De sandman's comin' 'round : lullaby
Composer:	Keiser, Robert A.
Publisher:	Hugo V. Schlam
Date:	1900

First line/ Refrain:	Dar's a mighty cur'ous circumstance dat's a botherin' all de nation (first line of text)
Title:	Evah dahkey is king
Composer:	Cook, Will Marion
Publisher:	New York American and Journal
Date:	1902

First line/ Refrain:	Dare's a bunch of style and fashion floatin' roun' de town (first line of text)
Title:	A red hot Esmeralda : coon song
Composer:	Lampe, J. B. (Jens Bodewalt)
Publisher:	Lampe Music Co.
Date:	1900

First line/ Refrain:	Dark town belle and her yeller man had a terr'ble fuss (first line of text)
Title:	All I wants is my black baby back : coon song & chorus
Composer:	Edwards, Gus
Publisher:	Howley, Haviland & Co.
Date:	1898

First line/ Refrain:	Darkey town, no one aroun' (first line of text)
Title:	Lovin' blues : song and fox-trot
Composer:	Wilson, Helen E.
Publisher:	Will Rossiter
Date:	1918

First line/ Refrain:	Darktown cabaret
Title:	Dark-town cabaret
Composer:	Moebus, Ed.
Publisher:	Jos. W. Stern
Date:	1913

First line/ Refrain:	Dat am de time (first line of chorus)
Title:	When it's all goin' out, and nothin' comin' in
Composer:	Williams, Bert
Publisher:	Jos. W. Stern & Co.
Date:	c1902

First line/ Refrain:	Dat lovin' rag
Title:	That lovin rag
Composer:	Adler, Bernie
Publisher:	F.B. Haviland Pub. Co.
Date:	1907

First line/ Refrain:	Dat's the reason why they call me the phrenologist coon (first line of chorus)
Title:	The phrenologist coon
Composer:	Accooe, Will
Publisher:	Jos. W. Stern & Co.
Date:	1901

First line/ Refrain:	Day is pas' en gone en what is done am done (first line of text)
Title:	Mammy moon
Composer:	Neidlinger, W. H. (William Harold)
Publisher:	Distributed exclusively by The Camp Fire Outfitting Co.
Date:	1915

First line/ Refrain:	De little stahs is blinkin' 'cause dey wants tuh go tuh sleep (first line of text)
Title:	A Georgia lullaby : hush-a-bye o'-baby
Composer:	Pigott, R. Stuart
Publisher:	s.n.
Date:	1901

First line/ Refrain:	De silb'ry moon am shining bright (first line of text)
Title:	Hush my little coon
Composer:	Wheeler, J. W. (James W.)
Publisher:	The Sunday World
Date:	1898

First line/ Refrain:	Deacon Jones addressed the congregation (first line of text)
Title:	Brother Noah gave out checks for rain
Composer:	Longbrake, Arthur
Publisher:	Jos. Morris
Date:	1907

First line/ Refrain:	Dear dream of love, sweet dream of love (first line of refrain)
Title:	Love's eternity
Composer:	Guy, Harry P.
Publisher:	Jerome H. Remick & Co.
Date:	1915

First line/ Refrain:	Deed I aint seen no messenger boy (first line of chorus)
Title:	I ain't seen no messenger boy
Composer:	Bivins, Nathan
Publisher:	Hugo V. Schlam
Date:	1899

First line/ Refrain:	Delegation of deacons from a "hard shell" congregation called on Parson Brown (first line of text)
Title:	It's nobody's business but my own
Composer:	Skidmore, Will E.
Publisher:	Skidmore Music Co.
Date:	c1919

First line/ Refrain:	Den away, away, for I can't wait any longer (first line of chorus)
Title:	Ole Shady, or, The song of the contraband
Composer:	Hanby, Benjamin Russel
Publisher:	Oliver Ditson & Co.
Date:	1861

First line/ Refrain:	Den bring de white folks one and all (first line of chorus)
Title:	Uncle Tom's farewell
Composer:	Benson, E. A.
Publisher:	E.A. Benson
Date:	1878

First line/ Refrain:	Den farewell (first line of chorus)
Title:	Mary Blane
Composer:
Publisher:	O. Ditson
Date:	18XX

First line/ Refrain:	Den farewell (first line of chorus)
Title:	Mary Blane
Composer:	Whitlock, William
Publisher:	C.G. Christman
Date:	1846

First line/ Refrain:	Den lay down de shubble and de hoe (first line of chorus)
Title:	Uncle Ned
Composer:	Foster, Stephen Collins
Publisher:	Oliver Ditson Co.
Date:	1906

First line/ Refrain:	Den lay down de shubble and de hooo [sic] (first line of chorus)
Title:	My unkle Ned
Composer:	Foster, Stephen Collins
Publisher:	Atwill
Date:	1848

First line/ Refrain:	Den pity poor old Jessy (first line of chorus)
Title:	Old Jessy : Ethiopian song
Composer:	Converse, Charles C. (Charles Crozat)
Publisher:	Lee & Walker
Date:	1852

First line/ Refrain:	Den sound de horn, beat de drum (first line of chorus)
Title:	Year of jubilee, or, Kingdom has come!
Composer:	Sambo
Publisher:	H.M. Higgins
Date:	1862

First line/ Refrain:	Dere once was a coon 'round as a balloon (first line of text)
Title:	Melancholy Mose
Composer:	Jerome, Benjamin M.
Publisher:	Howley, Haviland & Dresser
Date:	1901

First line/ Refrain:	Dere was an old nigga (first line of text)
Title:	Old uncle Ned
Composer:	Foster, Stephen Collins
Publisher:	W.E. Millet
Date:	1848

First line/ Refrain:	Dere was an old Nigger (first line of text)
Title:	Uncle Ned
Composer:	Foster, Stephen Collins
Publisher:	Oliver Ditson Co.
Date:	1906

First line/ Refrain:	Dere's a good time comin' for de niggers yet (first line of text)
Title:	Ev'ry day gwine to be Sunday : end song and chorus
Composer:	Rutledge, John T.
Publisher:	W.C. Woodward
Date:	1879

First line/ Refrain:	Dere's a pickaninny down in Georgia State (first line of text)
Title:	Ephasafa Dill
Composer:	Von Tilzer, Harry
Publisher:	Harry Von Tilzer
Date:	1903

First line/ Refrain:	Did you ever see a darkey dressed up walking down the street (first line of text)
Title:	Why hello Bill who's yo' friend
Composer:	Smith, Chris
Publisher:	Haviland
Date:	1904

First line/ Refrain:	Did your mammy or your daddy ever pat you on de head (first line of text)
Title:	Dat ain't nothin' but talk
Composer:	Smith, Chris
Publisher:	Falter Bros.
Date:	c1904

First line/ Refrain:	Dinah, de moon am shinin' (first line of refrain)
Title:	Kiss me, honey, do
Composer:	Stromberg, John
Publisher:	Weber Fields & Stromberg
Date:	1898

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

First line/ Refrain:	Dixie dimples deepen, Dixie hearts are beatin' (first line of text)
Title:	Cotton Hollow harmony : song
Composer:	Whiting, Richard A.
Publisher:	Jerome H. Remick & Co.
Date:	1918

First line/ Refrain:	Dixie, oh Dixie Dixie Daaaan (first line of chorus)
Title:	Dixie Dan
Composer:	Furth, Seymour
Publisher:	Shapiro
Date:	1907

First line/ Refrain:	Do you ever have dat pain in your head (first line of text)
Title:	The medicine man : a coon song
Composer:	Williams, Bert
Publisher:	Edward B. Marks
Date:	c1920

First line/ Refrain:	Do you miss me mammy (first line of text)
Title:	Alabamy mammy
Composer:	Von Tilzer, Albert
Publisher:	A.V.T. Music Pub. Co.
Date:	1921

First line/ Refrain:	Doan ye cry, ma honey (first line of chorus)
Title:	Doan ye cry, ma honey : darky song
Composer:	Noll, Albert W.
Publisher:	O. Ditson Co.
Date:	1899

First line/ Refrain:	Don't cast me aside
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:	Don't go away babe (first line of chorus)
Title:	Alic Busby, don't go away
Composer:	Cannon, Hughie L.
Publisher:	Howley, Haviland & Dresser
Date:	1903

First line/ Refrain:	Don't worry Bill
Title:	Sympathy : (don't worry Bill)
Composer:	Kendis, James
Publisher:	Jerome H. Remick & Co.
Date:	1905

First line/ Refrain:	Don't worry Bill
Title:	Sympathy : a coon plaint
Composer:	Kendis, James
Publisher:	J.H. Remick
Date:	1905

First line/ Refrain:	Don't yo' worry 'bout them Honey (first line of chorus)
Title:	Mammy's angel chile
Composer:	Shannon, J. R. (James Royce)
Publisher:	Grinnell Bros.
Date:	1911

First line/ Refrain:	Don't you hear de singin' of de stars (first line of text)
Title:	Croon, croon, underneat de moon : a southern love song
Composer:	Clutsam, George H.
Publisher:	Chappell & Co. Ltd.
Date:	1902

First line/ Refrain:	Don't you see de black clouds risin' ober yonder (first line of text)
Title:	Babylon is fallen! : song and chorus
Composer:	Work, Henry C. (Henry Clay)
Publisher:	Root & Cady
Date:	1863

First line/ Refrain:	Don't you see de black clouds risin' ober yonder (first line of text)
Title:	Babylon is fallen!
Composer:	Work, Henry C. (Henry Clay)
Publisher:	S. Brainard's Sons Co.
Date:	1885

First line/ Refrain:	Done had heaps o' trouble lately, wid my yaller gal (first line of text)
Title:	You once was excess baggage, now you'se only common freight
Composer:	Sloane, A. Baldwin (Alfred Baldwin)
Publisher:	M. Witmark & Sons
Date:	1899

First line/ Refrain:	Done heard lot 'bout some hot coons in town (first line of text)
Title:	Miss Virginia
Composer:	Irving, Bob
Publisher:	Chicago American
Date:	1901

First line/ Refrain:	Down across the border lives a rag-time coon (first line of text)
Title:	That coon town rag
Composer:	Siewert, Herm
Publisher:	C.A. Ross Pub. Co.
Date:	1913

First line/ Refrain:	Down at de barbecue las' Chuesday night (first line of text)
Title:	Darktown barbecue : Darktown was out at dat barbecue
Composer:	Cook, Will Marion
Publisher:	New York American
Date:	1905

First line/ Refrain:	Down dar, down dar (first line of chorus)
Title:	Whar de watermelon' grow
Composer:	Rosenfeld, Monroe H.
Publisher:	Jos. W. Stern & Co.
Date:	1898

First line/ Refrain:	Down in a great big rathskellar (first line of verse)
Title:	Play that barber shop chord
Composer:	Muir, Lewis F.
Publisher:	Fred Helf Co.
Date:	c1910

First line/ Refrain:	Down in a southern valley at quiet close of day (first line of text)
Title:	Meet me in heaven or, The night funeral of a slave
Composer:	Converse, Charles C. (Charles Crozat)
Publisher:	Oliver Ditson
Date:	1854

First line/ Refrain:	Down in Alabama (first line of text)
Title:	Mandy Lou
Composer:	Allen, Thomas S.
Publisher:	Daly Music Publisher
Date:	1911

First line/ Refrain:	Down in de cane brake close by de mill (first line of text)
Title:	Nancy Till
Composer:	I. D. K.
Publisher:	Greenshields Brothers
Date:	185X

First line/ Refrain:	Down in de cornfield (first line of chorus)
Title:	Massa's in de cold ground
Composer:	Foster, Stephen Collins
Publisher:	Firth, Pond & Co.
Date:	1852

First line/ Refrain:	Down in Georgia lan with my honey man (first line of chorus)
Title:	Dark-town cabaret
Composer:	Moebus, Ed.
Publisher:	Jos. W. Stern
Date:	1913

First line/ Refrain:	Down in Lou'siana where the sugar cane grows (first line of text)
Title:	Down among the sugar cane
Composer:	Mack, Cecil
Publisher:	Gotham-Attucks
Date:	1908

First line/ Refrain:	Down in Mobile, march two step
Title:	Down in Mobile : march characteristic
Composer:	Guy, Harry P.
Publisher:	Shapiro Remick & Co.
Date:	1904

First line/ Refrain:	Down in ole Virginny where I'as born (first line of text)
Title:	Nightie night : (kiss yo' mammy nightie night)
Composer:	Elliott, Eddie
Publisher:	Pace & Handy Music Co. Inc.
Date:	1917

First line/ Refrain:	Down in sunny Tennessee (first line of text)
Title:	Mammy's li'l sugah plum
Composer:	Morrison, Will B.
Publisher:	Craig-Ellis & Co.
Date:	1914

First line/ Refrain:	Down in the jungles lived a maid (first line of text)
Title:	Under the bamboo tree
Composer:	Cole, Bob
Publisher:	Jos. W. Stern & Co.
Date:	1902

First line/ Refrain:	Down old Mobile way (first line of text)
Title:	Paradise blues : oh! pretty papa! oh! pretty papa!
Composer:	Williams, Spencer
Publisher:	Frank K. Root & Co.
Date:	1916

First line/ Refrain:	Down to the hall, down to that ebony ball (first line of chorus)
Title:	Jazzing the blues away
Composer:	Heinrich, Dick
Publisher:	A.J. Stasny
Date:	1918

First line/ Refrain:	Down upon the levee on the Mississippi shore (first line of text)
Title:	I'm waiting for you Liza Jane
Composer:	Creamer, Henry
Publisher:	Broadway Music Corp.
Date:	1918

First line/ Refrain:	Down upon the Mississippi (first line of text)
Title:	Say you love me Sue
Composer:	Stromberg, John
Publisher:	Weber, Fields & Stromberg
Date:	1899

First line/ Refrain:	Down where the sugar cane's growing (first line of text)
Title:	Louisian' : novelty fox trot song
Composer:	Meskill, Jack
Publisher:	M. Witmark & Sons
Date:	1922

First line/ Refrain:	Down where the Wabash is flowing (first line of text)
Title:	Irene : waltz song & chorus
Composer:	Shook, Benjamin
Publisher:	Grinnell Bros.
Date:	1906

First line/ Refrain:	Down where the Wabash is flowing (first line of text)
Title:	Irene : waltz song
Composer:	Shook, Benjamin
Publisher:	Grinnell Bros.
Date:	1906

First line/ Refrain:	Dream, dream on and sleep (first line of chorus)
Title:	Pickaninny's slumber song
Composer:	Reese, Paul
Publisher:	Jerome H. Remick & Co.
Date:	1919

First line/ Refrain:	Dusky coon, who came to spoon (first line of text)
Title:	Ev'ry little bit helps
Composer:	Fisher, Fred
Publisher:	Harry Von Tilzer Music Pub. Co.
Date:	1904

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