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Dat borrowed watermelon : song & chorus / words and music by Ralph Rollins.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio M1.A13 K4 Box 20, no. 9
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- Format:
- Musical score
- Author/Creator:
- Rollins, Ralph.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Songs with piano.
- United States.
- Blackface minstrel music--Scores.
- Blackface minstrel music.
- Genre:
- Songs with piano.
- Songs and music.
- Songs.
- Scores.
- Music.
- Minstrel music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 score (5 pages) : illustrations ; 35 cm
- Contained In:
- Keffer Collection of Sheet Music.
- Other Title:
- Sambo gub a big party one night.
- Oh, dat watermelon.
- Place of Publication:
- Saint Louis : Balmer & Weber, [1881]
- Notes:
- Song; for voice and piano; refrain set for chorus (SATB) and piano.
- First line of text: Sambo gub a big party one night.
- First line of refrain: Oh, dat watermelon.
- At head of title: "All the rage".
- There is an advertisement for another song (Oleander Blossom's birthday party, by Jacob Sawyer) below the illustration on the t.p.
- Illustration for another song (Ise left de ole plantation, by Thomas P. Westendorf) on p. [6].
- Illustration: caricatures of African-Americans dancing around a table on which sits a large watermelon / F. Welcker Co.
- OCLC:
- 37736169
- Publisher Number:
- 4042-3 Balmer & Weber
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