The old home aint what it used to be : companion song to the "Old folks at home" : as sung by the original Georgia Minstrels

Contributor:

Howard, Charley, 1826-1895 (performer); Hicks, Charles B. (dedicatee); Georgia Minstrels (performer)

Name:

White, C. A. (Charles Albert), 1832-1892; Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864

Date:

1872

Language:

English

Publisher:

White, Smith & Company

Subject:

African Americans -- Songs and music; African Americans; Minstrel music; Freed persons; Plantation life; Plantation life -- Songs and music; Freed persons -- Songs and music; Popular music -- United States; Popular music; Songs with piano; Minstrel music -- United States

Resource Type:

Still Image

Form/Genre:

Songs and music; Songs with piano; Songs; Scores; Music; scores (documents for music)

Physical Description:

1 score (5 pages) : illustrations; 34 cm

Geographic Subject:

United States

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Song; for voice and piano; refrain set for chorus (SATB) and piano.; "To Charles B. Hicks".; Illustration: lithograph of Afro-American man with label "Charley Howard" on pants leg, sitting on a log, with a river in the background.; First line of text: Oh, the old home aint what it used to be.; First line of chorus: No, the old home aint what it used to be.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Rare Book Collection, Folio M1.A13 K4 Box 22, no. 44

Collection:

Keffer Collection of Sheet Music (University of Pennsylvania)