Oh! Carry me back

Contributor:

Christy Minstrels (performer); Sarony & Major (lithographer)

Name:

White, Charles, 1821-1891

Date:

1848

Language:

English

Publisher:

C. Holt, Jr

Subject:

Christy, Edwin Pearce, 1815-1862; African Americans -- Songs and music; African Americans; Portraits; Minstrel music; Oyster fisheries; Old age; Old age -- Songs and music; Oyster fisheries -- Songs and music; Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices, 4 parts) with piano; Popular music -- United States; Popular music; Songs with piano; Minstrel music -- United States; Christy, Edwin Pearce, 1815-1862 Portraits

Resource Type:

StillImage

Form/Genre:

Songs and music; Songs with piano; Songs; Scores; Music

Physical Description:

1 score (5 pages) : illustrations; 35 cm.

Geographic Subject:

United States; Virginia; Virginia -- Songs and music

Rights:

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

Notes:

For chorus (1st voice, 2nd voice, TB) and piano in key of D.; Caption title.; Title on cover: Carry me back to old Virginny.; Verses 2-3 printed as text at bottom of p. 5.; "De Floating Scow--also known as: Carry Me Back to Ole Virginny. w., m., Charles T. White. Philadelphia: Lee & Walker, cop. 1847"--Variety music cavalcade / Julius Mattfeld, p. 72.; List of titles 1-17 in the series given on cover.; Illustration: lithograph of Edwin P. Christy and various Christy Minstrels / Lith. of Sarony & Major.; First line of text: On the floating scow of old Virginny.; First line of chorus: Oh carry me back to old Virginny.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Rare Book Collection, Folio M1.A13 K4 Box 20, no. 33

Collection:

Keffer Collection of Sheet Music (University of Pennsylvania)