A large and very special African-American song list:
1819 Jim Crow
1826 The Log House
1830 Zip Coon
1832 Coal Black Rose
1839 Old Dan Tucker
1843 Boatmen’s Dance
1844 Lucy Neal, Corn Field Green
1847 Carry Me Back To Ole Virginny, Oh! Carry Me Back, Rosa Lee
1848 Julius’ Bride, De Louisiana Belle, Miss Lucy Neal, Old Uncle Ned, Suke of Tennessee
1849 Dine and Joe, Nelly Was a Lady,
1850 Camptown Races, Dinah Doe, Do Not Go Away My Lady Love, Gal From the South, Juney at the Gate, Massa Sound is Sleeping, The Nigroe’s Departure, Oh Dinah Take this Hand ob Mine, Philena My Dear, Poor Aunt Dinah, Sweet Nelly Brown
1851 The Darky’s Serenade, Fi Hi Hi, Good bye Linda Love, Old Folks at Home, Old Virginny Never Tire, Poor Old Slave, Wait For the Wagon
1852 The Colored Orphan Boy, The Death of St. Clare, Dinah’s Wedding Day, Dinah’s Serenade, The Dying Wife, Early in de Morning, Eliza’s Flight, Eva’s Parting, Gentle Eva, The Georgian Slave, Griffiths’ Edition of Young Folks From Home, Hush a by Baby, I am Going There, Jordon am a Hard Road To Trabel, Little Eva’s Vision, Little Eva, Little More Cider, Massa’s in de Cold Ground, The Old Banjo, Old Jessy, Our Homestead in Surely the Sweetest On Earth, Poor Uncle Tom, The Slave Mother, Sweet Lilla Brown, Tilda Horn, Tom Loker, Topsy’s Song, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Uncle Tom’s Glimpse of Glory, Uncle Tom’s Grave, Uncle Tom’s Lament For Eva, Uncle Tom, The Young Folks at Home
1853 Aunt Harriet Becha Stowe, The Billet Doux, The Colored Coquette, Come Along Gals Won’t You Come?, Come Take a Sail, The Death of Little Eva & Uncle Tom, Ella Ree, Jordan is a Hard Road To Trabel, Kitty Crow, Little More Cider, Little Topsy’s Song, Old Bob Ridley, Poor Old Slave, Poor Robin’ Growing Old, Poor Sister Sue, The Slave Mother, Sweet Lucy May, Uncle Tom’s Gone To Rest, We Are Coming Sister Mary, Yo! Yah! Yo! Strike the Old Banjo
1854 Carry Me Home To Tennessee, Dat’s Another Pull Back, Gentle Eva, The Ghost of Uncle Tom, Keemo Kimo, Oh! I’se So Wicked, Old Josey, Poor Elsie, St. Clare to Little Eva in Heaven, Susy Anna Simson, Uncle Tom’s Religion, Wake! Dinah! Wake!, The Young Folks at Home
1855 Jordan Ain’t a Hard Road To Travel, Listen to the Mocking Bird, Nelly Clyde, Old Aunty Neal, Poor Charlie, Poor Old Jake
1856 Cheer Up Sam, Phoebe Morel, Root Hog or Die, Tom Tit
1857 The Darkie’s Wedding, Oh Darkie Don’t You Linger, The Old Cabin Home
1858 Down in Alabam’, Johnny’s Equal is Not Here, Oh! I’se So Wicked, The Old Cabin Home, Sally Come Up
1859 Song of the Fugitive Slave
1860 Away Down in Dixie’s Land, Dixie’s Land, Emmett’s Original Dixon’s Line, Old Black Joe, Old K. Y. Ky., Tapioca, Uncle Tom’s Grave
1861 Cloe Bell, Ole Shady, Raw Recruits
1862 300,000 More!, De Day ob Liberty’s Comin’, I Can’t Help Dat Taint My Fault, Sally Come Up, Song of the Negro Boatman at Port Royal, We Are Coming Father Abra’am, Year of Jubilee, Kingdom Has Come
1863 Away Goes Cuffee, Come Back Massa, De Darkie’s Rally, The Ham Fat Man, High Daddy, Justice Has Striken the Chains From the Slave, Where Are You Three Hundred Dollars?, Young Eph’s Lament
1864 The Happy Contraband, How Do You Like It Jefferson D.?, I’se on de Way, My Polly Ann, Nancy Fat, The New Emancipation Song, No Slave Beneath That Starry Flag, Wake Nicodemus, We Are Coming From the Cotton Fields
1865 Intelligent Contraband, The Old Contraband, Richmond Is Ours, That’s What the Niggers Then Will Do
1866 Darky Sam, Pickaninny Nig, Young Eph’s Jubilee
1867 Little Sam, She’s Lovely as a Rose, What’s de Matter Uncle Sam?
1868 Adolphus Morningglory, Captain Grant of the Black Marines, The Charming Gay Quadroon, Darkey’s Suffrage, Jennie Gossen
1869 Clementina Ann the Flirt, Little Sam, Love Among the Roses
1870 Carry Me Back To Tennessee, Eva to Her Papa, Oh I’se So Wicked
1871 We’ll Be Dar
1872 My Gal, The Old Home Ain’t What It Used To Be, How D’y Do Aunt Susie?
1873 Dat’s Me and Martha Ann
1874 The Dear Old Home We Loved So Well, I’se Gwine Back To Dixie, Oh Yes We All Will Be Dar, Oh dat Watermelon, The Old Man Ain’t What He Used To Be, Poor Old Slave, Poor Uncle Pete, Shine On Remembrances of the South, The Skidmore Guard, Trabling Back To Georgia, Watching By the Golden Gate
1875 Angels Meet Me At the Cross Roads, Carve dat Possom, Den We’ll Join de Band, Emancipation Day, Flew-y Flew-y, I’ll Be Dar, The Little Log Cabin On the Hill, Oh Dar’s But Little Consolation, De Old Church Yard in de Lane, The Old Log Cabin in the Dell, The Old Log Cabin in the Lane, Who’s dat Knocking on de Ole Back Gate?
1876 Away Down South ‘way Down Where I Was Born, Come Back To de Ole Plantation, Emancipation Day, Old Aunt Jemima, Poor Old Uncle Rufe, Since I Saw de Cotton Grow, Slavery Days, Used-up Joe
1877 All de Darkies Gittin’ Up, Creole Lover’s Song, Good-by Old Cabin Home, Keep Dose Lamps a-burnin’, Old Uncle Dan, Ole Folks in the Land, Take Me Home, Walking For dat Cake
1878 Carry Me Back to Old Virginny, The Colored Waiters, Don’t Take Me Back To Slavery, Keep in de Middle ob de Road, Poor Little Chloe, Somebody’s Coming When the Dewdrops Fall, Sunrise In the Morning, Uncle Joe
1879 Close dem Windows, The Colored Grenadier, Dem Silver Slippers, Going From de Cottin Fields, De Huckleberry Picnic, I’m Going Home To Clo, I’s Left de old Plantation, Join Hands Together, The Little Spring Beside My Cabin Home, Oh dem Golden Slippers, The Skidmore Fancy Ball, The Skids Are On Review, Take Me Back To My Dear Old Southern Home, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
1880 De Camp Meetin’ Fire Bell, The Confederate Brigadiers, Dancing On de Kitchen Floor, The Dandy Colored Waiters, Dey’s All Put On de Blue, Ella Ree, De Golden Wedding, Hail dat Gospel Tug, Hear dem Bells, In the Evening by the Moonlight, De Louisiana Canebrakes, Mary’s Gone With a Coon, Moses Cart dem Melon Down, Oh My Brother, Oh When I War dem Gospel Garments, Oh I’ll Meet You Dar, The Old Slave’s Lament, On the Levee by the Riverside, Penelope Ann de Baby, Razors in the Air, The Skids Are Out Tonight, De Slav’ry Chains Am Broke At Last, Swim Out for Glory, When Am You Gwine?, Which Road Is You Gwine To Take?
1881 Come Along Sinners, Every Day’l Be Sunday By and By, Fifty Cents, Going To the Silver Wedding, Hulda’s Baby, I’m Grant and I’ve Travelled ‘Round the World, I’se Gwine To de Shuckin’ of de Corn, Little Baby Joe, Mother’s Request, De Old Folks Waiting, Old Joe’s Dream, De Ole Plantation Coon, De Ole Ship ob Zion, Ole’ Nicker Demus, Put On de Golden Shoe, South Fifth Avenue, Uncle Tom’s Gwine To Stay, Way Over Yonder, When the Big Bell Rings
1882 De Beacon Lamp Am Burning, Blow Gabriel Blow, De Coon Dinner, The Coons Are On Parade, De Hal-le-lu Band, I’ll Be Ready When de Great Day Comes, I’se Comin’ Close To Eighty Year, Medley of Songs No. 3, Nelly Bell, Old Uncle Jim, Old Uncle Sheppard, Ole Chloe an’ Me, De Ole Home Am Gone, Put On de Golden Crown, Put On Your Gospel Wings, Swinging on de Golden Gate, Uncle Dan’l’s Jined de Saints
1883 Bring Back dat Ham-Bone, The Click of the Garden Gate, Climbing Up To Glory, Creole Song, Go and Tell Maria, Good bye Nancy Jane, Good Lord’ll Help Me On My Way, Hand Me Down dem Golden Shoes, Happy Colored Man, I’ll Be Ready For de Weddin’ By and By, De Old Time Darkey, On de Golden Shore, On My Wedding Day, Paddle For de Golden Shore, Ring dem Chimin’ Bells, Ring dem Heavenly Bells, Sam Johnson’s Colored Cake Walk, Waiter’s Chorus or Two More To Come, We’ll Meet in de Light of de Moon
1884 Aunt Dinah’s Birthday Party, Climbing Up de Golden Stairs, Crooning to the Baby, Dar’s a Lock on de Chicken Coop Door, De Golden Chariot, Hush Little Baby Don’t You Cry, Sitting on the Golden Fence, Susan Brown’s Wedding, Swim For de Golden Shore
1885 The Butterfly Dude, De Coon dat Had de Razor, Don’t Take de Left Hand Road, A Few More Years, Good-bye My Honey I’m Gone, Hark don’t You Hear dem Bells a-Ringing, I’ll Meet old Massa There, Liza Loves You, Oh dat Low Bridge, The Old Cabin Home, Put on de Golden Sword, Ride On dat Golden Mule, We Couldn’t Bring de Little Darky To
1886 The Black Knight Templar, The Black Wedding, The Coon’s Excursion, I’m Flying High, Johnny Get Your Gun, Mama’s Black Baby Boy, Pick Up Your duds and Go, Put On Your Bridal Veil, Stop dat Car
1887 Dem Chickens Roost Too High, I’se a Happy Laughin’ Darkey, Massa’s Wedding Night, Meet Me At de Cross Roads Hannah, The New Jerusalem, De New Jerusalem Nine, The Old Black Crow, Over the Mountain of Sorrow, Slavery’s Passed Away
1888 Come and Meet Us Dar, Dixie’s Land, The Nigger and the Bee
1889 Creole Love Song, Don’t Forget dar’s a Weddin’ To-night, Four Little Curly Headed Coons, The Happy Whistling Coon
1890 Climb Up Ye Chillun Climb, The Colored Four Hundred, I’m the Father of a Little Black Coon, Shout Breddern Sisters Sing
1891 The Colored Millionaires, On de Rainbow Road, Sarah Jane Matilda
1892 A Negro Lullaby, Now Hannah don’t Get Gay, Push dem Clouds Away, We Ought to Be Thankful For That
1893 Can’t Lose Me Charlie, Can’t Yer Koon Jine?, The Dandy Coloured Coon, The Darkies’ Cradle Song, Hear dem Silver Chimes, Hear the Darkies Sing, If I Were You, Little Alabama Coon, Mamie Come Kiss Your Honey Boy, Rainbow in de Sky, The Sunny Side of Thompson Street, When the Coons Are On Parade
1894 ‘Mandy, Aunt Sis Tabb, Big Dick From Boston, Bring the Answer Back To Me, Clara Bella Brown, Come Down Ma Honey Do, The Coon From the Moon, Does Mama Love Papa?, Don’t You Trifle With Me Honey, get On Your Sneakshoes Children, Go ‘Long Go ‘Long, Honey Don’t Sigh, Hustle Children, I Ain’t Gwine To Linger Longer, I’se Gwine Back, De Jingle ob de Bell on de Cow, Lindy Does You Love Me?, Looking For a Coon Like Me, Louisiana Lou, Lucinda Cinda Jane, O Darkies, Don’t Yer ‘Member, Phoebe, Sambo, Sing Again That Sweet Refrain, Standing On the Corner Didn’t Mean No Harm, Sucking Cider Thro’ a Straw, Whar’s You Gone Melindy?, Where My Honey Sleeps, Who’s dat Huggin’ You Hannah Brown?
1895 Chloe, Cleanin’ Silber in de Kitchen, Climb de Golden Fence, Come and Kiss Your Baby If You Love Me True, The Coon With the Big White Spot, The Darkies’ Cradle Song, Goodness Gracious Children, Hi! Yi! Yer Off Now, Honey Does You Love Yer Man?, Hush Yo’ Business Oh Go On, I Love My Honey Yes I Do, I Want Yer Ma Honey, Keep a-Knockin’, Little Dark Brown Lou, Looking For a Bully, Love Me Love Me Lou, A Lubly Gal Was Dinah, Black America march, De Massa Ob de Sheepfol’, Negro Love Song, Way Down in Alabam’, Wings On Me
1896 The “Nicodemus” Two Step, “Oh, I Don’t Know”, The 9th Battalion On Parade, All Coons Look Alike To Me, Ambolena Snow, Aunt Jemima’s Lullaby, The Coon With the Big White Spot, Crappy Dan, Dat’s Ma Baby Dat’s Ma Honey, Eli Green’s Cake Walk, Every Night I See That Nigger Standin’ ‘Round, Honey On My Lips, Hush! My Little Coon, Hush! Pickaninnies, I Can’t Think ob Nuthin’ Else But You, I Don’t Love Nobody, I Want dem Presents Back, I’ll Make dat Black Gal Mine, I’se Your Nigger If You Wants Me Liza Jane, Is Yer Mammie Always With Ye?, Jine de Ban’, Kentucky Babe, Louiser, Love is the Tenderest of Themes, Ma Angeline, Ma Onliest One, May Irwin’s Bully Song, May Irwin’s Frog Song, May Irwin’s Lulu Song, Mister Johnson Turn Me Loose, My Coal Black Lady, My Gal is a High Born Lady, My Little Cullud Country Gal, The New Bully, The Octoroon, Oh! I Don’t Know You’re Not So Warm, Only a Little Yaller Coon, When I Do the Hoochy-Coochy in the Sky, When Miss Maria Johnson Marries Me, Yer Baby’s a-Comin’ To Town
1897 Armazindy Lee, At a Georgia Camp Meeting, An Awful Wicked Nigger, The Belle of Darktown, Black Annie, Bom-ba-shay, Bye Bye Belinda, Camp-Meetin’ Coons, Can’t Bring Him Back, Carolina Dinah, The Coleville Coon Cadets, Come BAck My Honey I’se Been Waiting, Dar’ll Be a Nigger Missing, Dar’s a New Coon Weddin’, Don’t Fool dat Black Gal’s Mine, Don’t Yer Tease Me Lulu, Enjoy Yourselves, Everybody Shout Fo’ Ma Baby, Evahbody Knows Ma Name, Every Nigger Had a Lady But Me, Fly You Blackbirds Fly, Honey You’se Ma Lady Love, I Don’t Care If Yo’ Nebber Comes Back, I Don’t Like No Cheap Man, I Guess That Will Hold You For a While, I Love You My Love I Do, I Want Ma Honey Boy Now, I’m a Peach, If That Ain’t Winning a Home Well I Don’t Know, Keep a-Watchin’ Dis Coon, Little Dolly Daydream, Little Huckleberry, Ma Curly-headed Babby, Ma Honey Lou, Ma Susie Anna, Mammy’s Little Pumpkin Colored Coons, My Baby I’ll Go Too, My Coal Black Lady, My Curly-Headed Babby, A Negro’s Lament, Nigger Nigger Never Die, Oh! Ebenezer, Ram-a-jam, Ramus Takes the Cake, She’s My Warm Baby, Shut Yoah Eyes, Southern Lullaby, De Swellest Ladie’s Coon in Town, Syncopated Sandy, That Black Man From Troy, There’s a Nigger in the Moon, Virginia Ma Baby, The Warmest Baby in the Bunch, Wish You Could Hab Seen dat Nigger’s Eye, You Ain’t de Only Coon in Town
1898 All I Wants is Ma Chickens, All I Wants is My Black Baby Back, Baby Loo, Be Ma Honey Gal, Big Black Lou, The Black K.P.’s, Callin’ Up de Coons, The Coon Who Stole Ma Honey, Coon’s Breach of Promise, The Coon’s Trade-Mark, Daisy Dixey’s Dan, Dar’s Somethin’ About Yer I Like, Darktown Is Out To-night, Dat Yaller Gal By My Side, The Dixie Kid, Dixie’s Land, Doan Give Me No Golden Harp, Don’t Wake My Pickaninny, He’s Goin’ To Hab a Hot Time Bye an’ Bye, He’s Up Against the Real Thing Now, Hea’ Comes Ma Baby, Honey On My Lips, Honey You’se My Turtle Dove, Honey dat I Love So Well, A Hoodoo Coon, I Don’t Allow No Coon To Hurt My Feelin’s, I Don’t Play No Favorites, I Got My Baby Back, I Love’s You ‘Deed I Do My Babe, I Want a Coon To Match My Own Complexion, I Wish My Rent Was Paid, I’m a Modern Black Adonis and a Dead Swell Swell, If I Only Had a Job, Jasper Jenkins “de Cake Walk Coon”, Keep Away From Emmeline, Kiss Me Honey Do, Let Me Bring My Clothes Back Home, Let Me Take Yer Home Again, Lily Crow, Liza Does You Love Your Coon?, Liza I’se Your Man, Lucille Ma Lady Love, Lucy Tell Me I’se Yer Beau, Ma Genuine African Blonde, Ma Honey Gal, Ma Mandy, Miss Hazel Brown, Miss Suzzanah Brady Am My Lady, Mister Johnson Don’t Get Gay, Mr. Johnsing’s Chowder, My Honolulu Lady, My Josephine, The Official Guide and Songbook of “Black America”, De Ole Time Cake Walk, Pickaninny It’s Time You Was In Bed, Rastus Thompson’s Rag-time Cake Walk, Since I’se Got Money in de Bank, Sorry Mr. Jackson I’ve Got To Throw You Down, Step Aside You Niggers, Susie-ue, The Suwanee Shore, Take Me Back Babe, That Brown Skin Baby Mine, There’s Only One and Dat Ain’t You, Two Little Coons, Whar de Watermelon Grow, When the Parson Makes Miss Mandy Johnson Mine, When You Ain’t Got No Money Well You Needn’t Come ‘Round, Who dat Say Chicken in dis Crowd, Why Don’t You Get a Lady Of Your Own?, You Can’t Have Your Name Upon My Door, You May Go But This Will Bring You Back, You’re All Right but You Can’t Ring In, You’se Just a Little Nigger Still You’se Mine All Mine
1899 The Black Man’s Kissing Bug, Bring de Banjo Ebenezer, Chicken, The Coffee Colored Coon, The Coldest Coon In Town, De Coon Dat’s Caught Ma Eye, Coon Hollow Capers, The Coonville Guards, The Dandy Colored Guards, The Darkey’s Home Sweet Home, Doan Ye Cry Ma Honey, Don’t You Remember Me Massa, Don’t You Try To Rubber-neck, Dusky Dudes, Everything is Ragtime Now, Gabie, Got Your Habits On, Hannah I Want My Hannah, He’s Jes’ de Same As Married To Me, Hello Ma Baby, His Rag-time Walk Won the Prize, Hush Your Noise and Go To Sleep, I Ain’t Got No Happy Home To Leave, I Ain’t Seen No Messenger Boy, I Cert’ny Works Hard For Mah Money, I Couldn’t Stand To See Ma Baby Lose, I Don’t Care To Be Your Lady Friend No More, I Don’t Want No Jonah Hangin’ Round, I Don’t Want No Yellow Coon, I Got All I Can Do To Keep My Hands Off You, I Guess That Will Be About All, I Likes the Place So Much I Hates To Leave, I’d Leave Ma Happy Home For You, I’m ‘Fraid dis Snap Is Mos’ Too Good To Last, I’m Happy When I’m By Ma Baby’s Side, I’m Livin’ Easy, I’se a-Pickin’g My Company Now, I’se a-Waitin’ Ma Gal For You, I’ve Lost Ma Baby, It Didn’t Even Hesitate, Jemima’s Wedding Day, Jes’ When I Needs You Most You Throws Me Down, The Lady With the Auburn Hair, Liza Skinner, Louisiana Lize, Love Me Babe Ma Honey Do, Ma Baby Girl, Ma Lady Lu, Ma’ Rag Time Baby, Maisie, Make No Mistake, Mammy’s Carolina Twins, Mammy’s Kinky-headed Coon, Mammy’s Little Alligator Bait, Mammy’s Little Pumpkin Colored Coons, Mandy, Mandy Will You Be My Lady Love, The Medicine Man, Miss Simpson Brown, My Black Bess, My Black Lou, My Blackbird, My Gal From Honolulu, My Hannah Lady Whose Black Baby Is You?, My Little ‘Lasses Candy Coon, My Little Octoroon, My Susie-Anna From Louisiana, My Watermelon Boy, No Cake Comes Too High For Me, Now I Got Some Money Well I’m Coming Round, Old Jasper’s Cake Walk, Pensacola Pickaninny, Pickaninny Mine Come Hide Away, Playing On de Golden Strings, The Queen of Charcoal Alley, Rock-a-bye Don’t You Cry, Say You Love Me Sue, Slave Song, Sleep Ma Honey Sleep, Smoky Mokes, Stay In Your Own Backyard, Sue Ma Sue, Summer Time In Dixie, That Coon Got Lucky Mighty Soon, Topsy’s In Town, What Marry dat Gal?, You Can Take Your Trunk And Go To Harlem, You Can’t Boss Me, You Got To Play Rag Time
1900 Coon That Wore the First Shirt Waist, Croon Croon Underneath de Moon, Don’t You Think You’d Like To Fondle Me, Every Race Has a Flag But the Coon, Lina My Jet Black Queen, Ma Curly-headed Babby, Mammy’s Little Bright-eyed Coon, Meet Me In de Lane, My Charcoal Charmer, My Little Zulu babe, My Sunflower Sue, Pensacola Pickaninny, Say Lize Will You Be My Honey?, Sleep My Kinky-headed Coon, We’ll Have No More Coon Rag-time Songs Tonight, You Can’t Fool Me No More, You Needn’t Make dem Goo-Goo Eyes
1901 Cleo, Creole Cradle Song, Dem White Pants, Don’t You Never Take No Ten Cent Drink On Me, Down in Sunny Alabama, Every Darkey Had a Raglan On, Good Morning Carrie, Honey Honey Gal Be Mine, I Hates To Get Up Early in the Morn, I Needs You Very Badly Liza Jane, I’d Give a Hundred If the Gal Was Mine, I’m Gettin’ So Thirsty, I’m Goin’ To Live Anyhow ‘Till I Die, If I Only Had a Dollah of My Own, Lulu I Loves Yer Lulu, My Starlight Sue, The Maiden With the Dreamy Eyes, My Fairy Coon, My Lady Chlo’, My Susie, The Phrenologist Coon, Sleep Ma Pickaninies Sleep, Tell Me Honey, The Voo-doo Man, When Mister Shakespeare Comes To Town
1902 Behave Mister Man Behave, Bill Bailey, Brown-Skin Baby Mine, Carry Me Back To Old Virginny for men’s voices, The Coon With the Yaller Streak, Evah Dahkey is a King, Good Evenin’, I Wants a Man Like Romeo, I’d Like To Be a Real Lady, If Money Talks It Ain’t On Speaking Terms With Me, My Friend From My Home, My Lady Chlo’, My Little Chocolate Cream, Oh Didn’t He Ramble, Oh Mister Grundy, On Emancipation Day, Please Let Me Sleep, That Certain Party, Things Ain’t the Same Babe I’m Coming Home, Under the Bamboo Tree, Waitin’ For You My Honey, You Can Search Me, You Can’t Join This Show, You Were Never Introduced To Me, You’s Your Mammy’s Honey Boy, The Zulu Hall of Fame
1903 Can’t live without yer “Come back to Indiana”, The Coontown billionaire , Coonville’s cullud band:: coon march song, Dat’s just what “expotentisious” means, Do de angels weep?:: story song and refrain, I aint got no use for sleep, I want to play Hamlet, I wonder where my easy rider’s gone?, I’m a Jonah man, I’m having a million-dollar dream, Ma lady moon, The maid of Timbuctoo, Moonlight on the Mississippi, My Dixie land daisy, She certainly looks good to me, Show the white of yo’ eye, They’ll talk about you anyhow, Tildy Ann, When it’s moonlight on the levee Caroline:: song & chorus
1904 Aint got nothin’ never had nothin’ don’t want nothin’ but you, Albany Dat’s de only town looks good to me, By the watermelon vine:: Lindy Lou, Come back Mirandy, Gimme de leavins, Hollyhock, Honey won’t you let me know:: coon love ballad, I’ll do as much for you, I’m just crazy ’bout you:: novelty song, It’s allas de same in Dixie, Ma li’l sweet sunbeam, Mammy’s honey sweetness:: song, My Africana queen, My Black Rose:: a song of songs, Pickaninny lullaby, Possum pie or The stuttering coon, The preacher and the bear, Sambo and Dinah, Satisfied:: an emotional drag, Snowball Sammy, When de stars play hide an’ seek:: novelty song & refrain, When Mr. Shakespeare comes to town:: coon song & chorus, When the coons have a dreamland of their own, Why Adam sinned
1905 Creole lover’s song:: for tenor or soprano, Don’t be what you ain’t, I don’t know where I’m goin’ but I’m on my way:: a coon oddity, I’m feelin’ fine, If the man in the moon were a coon, The little black man, Mandy Lou, My dusky rose, Nelly was a lady, Pickaninny Mose, The Yankee Doodle Negro
1906 The best I get is “there he goes”:: a coon wail, Build a nest for birdie, Carry me back to Old Virginny:: song and chorus, De cleanin’ man:: a Blackville satire, Dixie land, The ghost of the banjo coon, Good-bye Mister Greenback, I ain’t going back to Baltimo’ no mo’:: coon song, I’ve said my last farewell:: toot toot good bye, De red rose is sighin’, Shovellin’ coal, Sleepy-haid, Throw down dat key, What’s the use of knockin’ when a man is down
1907 Bon bon Buddy, Everybody’s pickin’ on me, I wants the love that loves to love me all the time:: an inspiration, I’m going to get myself a man (gal) thats all, Just an old friend of the family, Just the same, Let me be your lemon coon, A royal coon:: a gem from the Black Patti Troubadours, Somebody’s been around here since I’ve been gone, That lovin rag, The wedding of the Chinee and the coon, Wid de moon, moon, moon:: Negro love song with piano accompaniment, You’ll have to choose another baby now:: song and chorus
1908 The booker T’s are on parade to-day, Dixie:: with easy variations, Does anyone know anything at all?, Ev’rybody’s crazy ’bout the doggone blues:: but I’m happy, The Gibson coon, I wish I was in heaven sittin’ down, Kinky, Ma dear li’l’ dimpled coon, Money, The right church but the wrong pew, Who knows?:: ballad
1909 Ain’t you coming out to-night, The Brinkley coon, Cindy my black belle do!, Come after breakfast:: bring ‘long your lunch and leave ‘fore supper time, Come right in sit right down make yourself at home, I doan want you hangin round:: coon song, Jest a misunderstandin’ wid ma lady love:: (the love-sick coon), The luckiest coon in town, Mammy’s little Dinah, Mandy from Mandalay, Miss Lou, Mr. Coon you’re all right in your place, Possum:: the latest craze, Shaky eyes, Sing a good old ragtime song, Who knows?:: song
1910 Chili Sauce, Ma Pale-Brown Lady Sue, Ole March Win’, Plant a Watermelon On My Grave And Let the , A Plantation Ditty, Pliney Come Out in the Moonlight, Slip Your Glad Rags On and Come With Me
1911 Enuff, Fare Thee Lizzie Lee, Little Maggie Brady, Liza Give Me What I’m Longing For, Mammy’s Shufflin’ Dance, Mandy Lou, Pullman Porter Man, When My Dark Diana Dreams Of Me
1912 Dusty rag, Exhortation:: a Negro sermon, Georgia land:: novelty song, If every star was a little pickaninny, Mistah Moonshine:: a silhouette, Mister melody man, Rain song, Swing along!, Wait until your daddy comes home
1913 All aboard for Dixie land, Anna Liza’s wedding day, At Mammy’s fireside, Chicken pie:: song, A fat li’l’ feller wid his mammy’s eyes:: song, In the heart of the city that has no heart, Way down in Cotton Town, When the steamboats on the Swanee whistle rag-time
1914 An explanation:: characteristic Negro verses, Listen to that Dixie band, Miss Caroline:: Southern serenade song, My lady, Ruff Johnson’s Harmony Band, St. Louis blues, When it’s night time in Dixie Land
1915 Alabama jubilee, Don’t be what you ain’t, We’ll have a jubilee in my old Kentucky home
1916 Back home in Dixie where I long to be, Black-eyed Susan, Cotton pickin’ time in Alabam’, Deep river:: Negro spiritual, Dreamin’ in de twilight, A dusky lullaby, If the can canny cannibals captured New York town, Nellyfants:: a musical recitation with piano accompaniment, When you hear Jackson moan on his saxophone
1917 The American serenade, At the cotton pickers ball, Beale Street blues, The darktown strutters’ ball, Everybody loves a jass band, Honey, if yo’ only knew:: song, A little bit o’ honey, Ma little banjo, A study in black and white, When you go back to that lonesome town of mine
1918 The “St. Louis blues”, (I’m waiting for you) Liza Jane, Dancing ‘neath the Dixie moon, Deep river:: part song for men’s voices: Negro spiritual, Don’t cry, little girl, don’t cry:: ballad arrangement, Give me back my husband, you’ve had him long e’nuff:: jazz song, Jazzin’ the blues away, Keep jazzin’ it Ras’, Little brown baby, Mammy’s little pansy, Oh Henry! Mammy surely paddled me, Ragtime Mose’s oldtime bomboshay:: song, When it’s cotton pickin’ time in Tennessee, When they build that Dixie highway:: Whitely
1919 Alabama Lullaby, Anything Is Nice If It Comes From Dixieland, At the High Brown Babies’ Ball, Don’t Be Weary Traveller, Goodnight Angeline, I’ll Dance My Way Right Back To Dixieland, I’ll Sing You a Song, Kinky Koo, Li’l Rosebud Joe, Little Wheel a-Turnin’ In My Heart, My Swanee Home, Pickaninny Dreams, Smile an’ Dry Yo’ Eyes, When Mistah Sun am Blazin’, You Can’t Shake That Shimmie Here
1920 Darktown Dancin’ School, Don’t Be What You Ain’t, Fare Thee Honey Blues, I Love the Land of Old Black Joe, Ma Mississippi Babe, Mammy’s Little Sugar Plum, Mandy, My Mammy, Ol’ Car’lina, Pickanniny Sam, Read ‘Em and Weep
1924 Dere’ll Be No Distinction Dere
1926 Mammy’s Precious Pickaninny
Undated: Going Ober de Mountain, In de Wild Raccoon Track, Sich a Gitting Up Stairs