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Old black Joe: song & chorus

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written & composed by Stephen C. Foster.For voice and piano, with chorus refrain.At head of title: Ten thousand copies sold.Reprint. Originally published: [New York] : Firth, Pond & Co., 1860.Wm. A. Pond & Co. was at this address from 1877 until 1896. Cf. Early American sheet music / Dichter and Shapiro.Advertisement: Our selected, graded and classified music, vocal, [no.] 3 on p. [6]Title page illustration: lithograph of an Afro-American man and a white girl titled "Dan Bryant.""Armstrong & Co. Lith., 1 Somerset St., Boston, and Riverside Press, Cambridge."Price mark 4 in a diamond.First line of text: Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay.First line of chorus: I'm coming, I'm coming.Foster Hall Collection cutter no.: 498.255.
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