- Additional Authors
- Emmett, Daniel Decatur, 1815-1904.
- Description
- 1 sheet ([1] p.); 30 x 24 cm.
- Uniform Title
- American broadsides and ephemera. First series ; no. 6161.
- Genre/Form
- Note
- Song in twenty-eight stanzas; first line: I'll tell my story in a song.
- Old Dan Tucker, by Daniel D. Emmett, was published at Boston in 1843. "It has been sung, perhaps, oftener than any melody ever written." Cf. "Negro mistrelsy--ancient and modern" in Putnam's monthly, Jan. 1855, p. 72, etc. Also, Nathan, H. Dan Emmett and the rise of early Negro minstrelsy, 1962.
- Text in three columns; printed area, including ornamental border, measures 24.3 x 19.7 cm.
- Reproduction (note)
- Electronic text and image data.
- Title
The Family of mock nobility [electronic resource] : Air---"Old Dan Tucker."
- Imprint
[United States : s.n., not before 1843]
- Series
American broadsides and ephemera. First series ; no. 6161.
- Reproduction
Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2005. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (American broadsides and ephemera. First series ; no. 6161).
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- Place of Publication
United States.
- Added Author
Emmett, Daniel Decatur, 1815-1904. Old Dan Tucker (Tune)