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Identifier: famousamericanso00kobbrich (find matches)
Title: Famous American songs
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Kobbé, Gustav, 1857-1918
Subjects: Songs, English -- History and criticism National songs -- United States
Publisher: New York, T. Y. Crowell & co
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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n their final shape they are: 65 (famouisi ^metican ^ongjs Ole missus marry Will-de-weaber;Willum was a gay deceaber; Look away I look away 1 look away IDixie Land!But when he put his arm around her,He smiled as fierce as a forty-pounder;Look away I look away I look away 1Dixie Land! His face was sharp as a butchers cleaber;But dat did not seem to greab her;Look away I look away I look away IDixie Land 1Ole missus acted de foolish part,And died for a man dat broke her heart;Look away! look away! look away 1Dixie Land 1 Now heres health to de next ole missus,An all the gals dat want to kiss us;Look away I look away 1 look away IDixie Land IBut if you want to drive way sorrow,Come and hear dis song to-morrow;Look away! look away! look awaylDixie Land I Dar s buckwheat cakes an Injin batter,Makes you fat or a little fatter;Look away! look away! look away IDixie Land!Den hoe it down an scratch your grabble,To Dixies Land I m bound to trabble;Look away! look away! look awaylDixie Land I 66
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DAN EMMETT, IN OLD AGE MXit Mrs. Emmett had suggested plainDixie as a title for the song, and herhusband had adopted it. But whenthe song was published in i860, itwas called, I wish I was in DixiesLand,—a line which does not occurin it. Afterwards it was published asDixies Land—but to the public itsimply is Dixie, which shows thatwhen Mrs. Emmett suggested thatone word for a title, she knew whatshe was about. Emmett himself statedthat he received five hundred dollarsfor the copyright of Dixie, and thatwhat he had received for all his othersongs put together (which, it shouldbe remembered, included his popularDan Tucker) would be fairly repre-sented by one hundred dollars; so thatduring a lifetime of eighty-nine yearshis receipts as a popular song com-poser amounted to six hundred dol-lars—and obscurity in a little Westerntown! In 1894, when Emmett was seventy- 67 jfamoujs amerfcan ^ongjs nine years old, a minstrel manager,who thought the composer of Dixiestill might be profitabl

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