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Description and Notes
written and composed by S.C. Foster.
The music, in the Key of G, is a vocal solo with a refrain for four mixed voices and with piano accompaniment.
Caption title.
Reprint. Originally published: Louisville : W. C. Peters, 1848.
Publication date range based on address given for A. C. & J. L. Peters in advertisement.
Advertisement on p. [6]: "A select catalogue of popular ballads ... published by A. C. & J. L. Peters ... No. 94 West Fourth Street, Cincinnati."
A. C. & J. L. Peters was at this address from 1861 until 1864. Cf. Early American sheet music / Dichter and Shapiro.
First line of text: We'll put for de Souf.
First line of chorus: No use talkin when de Nigga wants to go.