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You've been a good old wagon, but you've done broke down

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Description

After chorus contains 40 measures of music for piano solo labeled Dance music.Considered one of the first published ragtime songs.Harney and Biller credited as co-composers beneath caption title. [Biller was the arranger.]Photocopy, lacking cover.Summary: Using ethnic stereotyped language, the narrator describes being in a game of craps when a policeman puts him in jail. The narrator offers farewells to his girlfriend. The narrator goes before a judge saying that he was at a crap game carrying a gun; the judge and jury say he killed three African Americans in the first degree and can not be released on bail.
Format:
Scores
Contributors:
Biller, Johnny
Created Date:
1896
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American popular songs

Record Contributed By

Music Division. The New York Public Library

Record Harvested From

The New York Public Library

Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Capture & Imprisonment
  3. Ragtime Music
  4. Songs

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