Ole Shady, or, The song of the contraband

Contributor:

Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893 (dedicatee)

Name:

Hanby, Benjamin Russel, 1833-1867

Timespan:

Civil War, 1861-1865

Date:

1861

Language:

English

Publisher:

O. Ditson & Co

Subject:

Songs with piano; Fugitive slaves; Fugitive slaves -- United States -- Songs and music; Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- United States -- Songs and music; Enslaved persons -- Emancipation; African Americans -- Songs and music; African Americans; History; Popular music -- United States; Popular music

Resource Type:

Still Image

Form/Genre:

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

Physical Description:

1 score (5 pages); 34 cm

Geographic Subject:

United States; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Songs and music

Rights:

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

Notes:

Song; for voice and piano; refrain set for chorus (SATB) and piano.; Words and music attributed to Hanby in: Spaeth. Hist. of popular music in America, p. 147.; "To Columbia's noble son, Maj. Gen. Benj. F. Butler".; First line of text: Oh yah! yah! darkies, laugh wid me.; First line of chorus: Den away, away, for I can't wait any longer.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Rare Book Collection, Folio M1.A13 K4 Box 17, no. 15

Collection:

Keffer Collection of Sheet Music (University of Pennsylvania)