List of blackface minstrel songs

This is a list of songs that either originated in blackface minstrelsy or are otherwise closely associated with that tradition. Songwriters and publication dates are given where known.

A

 * "Abraham Lincoln Jones", Cecil Mack and Chris Smith (1909)
 * "Alabama Joe" (a.k.a. "Shall Trelawney Die") (before 1855)
 * "Angelina Baker" (1850)
 * "The Arkansas Traveler" (c. 1862)

B

 * "Babylon Is Fallen", Henry Clay Work (1863)
 * "Back Side of Albany"
 * "The Band of Niggers! From 'Ole Virginny State'" (1844)
 * "The Bee-Gum", G. Willig (1833)
 * "Billy Patterson", Dan Emmett (1860)
 * "The Black Brigade", Dan Emmett (1863)
 * "Blue Tail Fly" (a.k.a. "Jimmy Crack Corn") c. 1846
 * "The Boatman's Dance", credited to Dan Emmett (1843) (Emmett, Boston, 1840s or 1842) (Nathan 131–2, 186, 191, 193, 320–3)
 * "Bonja Song" (c. 1820)
 * "Bowery Gals" (a.k.a. "As I Was Lumbering")
 * "Bress Dat Lubly Yaller Gal"
 * "Briggs' Breakdown", Z. Bacchus
 * "Buckley's Sleighing Song", A. Sedgwick (1853)

C

 * "Camptown Races", Stephen Foster, (1850)
 * "Can't Yo' Heah Me Callin' Caroline", Caro Roma (1914)
 * "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" James A. Bland, (1878)
 * "Charleston Gals" (1844)
 * "Ching a Ring Chaw"
 * "Claire de Kitchen", performed as early as 1832 by T. D. Rice and George Washington Dixon
 * "Clar de Track", 1840s.
 * "Clem Titus' Jig", published by Dan Emmett
 * "Coal Black Rose" (c. 1829)
 * "The Colored Croquette", James Lord Pierpont (1853)
 * "Come Back Stephen"/"Come Back Steben"
 * "Cornfield Green"
 * "Cynthia Sue"

D

 * "Dandy Broadway Swell", (1849)
 * "Dandy Jim from Caroline" (and variants), Dan Emmett (c. 1844)
 * "Dar He Goes! Dats Him!", Dan Emmett (1844)
 * "Dere Be Any Malted Licker Here?"
 * "Darkey Money Musk" (a.k.a. "Money Must", "Holyrood or Moneymusk", "Sir Archibald Grant of Monymusk's Reel"), Daniel Dow (1780)
 * "Darkies' Pastime"
 * "Darktown Strutters' Ball, Shelton Brooks (1917)
 * "Dearest May"
 * "Dick Myers' Jig", published by Dan Emmett
 * "Dinah's Wedding Day"
 * "Division Street Jig", Z. Bacchus
 * "Dixie" (a.k.a. "Dixie's Land", "I Wish I Was in Dixie"), Dan Emmett contested, 1859
 * "Do Fare You Well Ladies" (1840s)
 * "Do I Do I Don't Do Nothing" (1825)
 * "Don't bet your money on de Shanghai", Stephen Foster (1861)
 * "Dr. Hekok Jig", Z. Bacchus, published by Dan Emmett (Nathan 200, 203, 208, 486–7)

E

 * "Eelam Moore Jig", Dan Emmett (before 1854)
 * "Effects of the Brogue", (a.k.a. "Tatter Jack") Dan Emmett (by 1861)
 * "The Entertainer, Scott Joplin (1902)

F

 * "Far [Fare] You Well Ladies"
 * "Farewell My Lilly Dear", Stephen Foster (1851)
 * "The Fine Old Color'd Gentleman", Dan Emmett (1843)
 * "De Floating Scow Quickstep" (a.k.a. "Oh Carry Me Back to Old Virginny"*), E. Ferrett (1847)
 * "Forty Hosses in de Stable", J. Kierman (1840s)
 * "The Free Nigger", sung by R. W. Pelham (1841)

G

 * "Gantz's Jig", published by Dan Emmett
 * "Genuine Negro Jig", published by Dan Emmett
 * "Gentle Annie", Stephen Foster (1856)
 * "Geraldine", James Lord Pierpont (1854)
 * "Gentle Nettie Moore/The Little White Cottage", James Lord Pierpont (1857)
 * "Get along Home, Cindy", possibly developed from a minstrel tune "Cindy Lou"
 * The Glendy Burk, Stephen Foster (1860)
 * "Ginger Blue" (1841)
 * "Grape Vine Twist"
 * "Gonna Eat Ma Chicken 'Til I'm Fried"
 * "Gray Goose and Gander"
 * "Guinea Maid"
 * "Gumbo Chaff" (a.k.a. "Gombo Chaff"), early 1830s
 * "Gwine to de Mill", Jay R. Jenkins (1846)

H

 * Hand Me Down My Walking Cane, James A. Bland (1880)
 * "Happy Are We Darkies So Gay"
 * "Hard Times", Tom Briggs (1855)
 * "Hell on the Wabash Jig"
 * "High Daddy", Dan Emmett (1863)
 * "Hop Light, Loo", Dan Emmett (before 1854)
 * "Hot Corn"

I

 * "I Ain't Got Time to Tarry" (a.k.a. "The Land of Freedom"), Dan Emmett (1858)
 * "I'm Going Home to Dixie", Dan Emmett (1861)
 * "I'm Gwine ober de Mountain", Dan Emmett (1843)
 * "I Saw the Beam in My Sister's Eye"
 * "If Money Talks, It Ain't On Speaking Terms With Me", J. Fred Helf (1902)
 * "Ireland and Virginia"

J

 * "Jack on the Green", Dan Emmett
 * "James Crow", Sam Carusi (1832)
 * "Jenny Get Your Hoe Cake Done", popularized by Joel Sweeney (1840)
 * "Jim Along Josey", credited to "an Eminent professor" and performed by John N. Smith (1840)
 * "Jim Brown" (1835)
 * "Johnny Boker or De Broken Yoke in de Coaling Ground" (1840)
 * "Johnny Roach", Dan Emmett (1859)
 * "Jolly Raftsman"
 * "Jordan Is a Hard Road to Travel", Dan Emmett (1853)
 * "The Jolly Raftsman"
 * "Juba"
 * "Juber" (1840s)
 * "Jumbo Jum" (1840)
 * "Jump Jim Crow", (c. 1823, popularized by T.D. Rice in 1828)
 * "Just Because She Made Dem Goo-Goo Eyes", Hughie Cannon (1900)

K

 * "Kingdom Coming" (a.k.a. "Year of Jubilo"), Henry Clay Work (1862)
 * "Kitty Crow", James Lord Pierpont (1853)

L

 * "Land of Canaan", played by J. Simmons (before 1860)
 * "A Life by the Galley Fire"
 * "De Long Island Nigger", Emma Snow (?) (c. 1848)
 * "Long Time Ago", John Cole (1833)
 * "Loozyanna Low Grounds", Dan Emmett (1859)
 * “Lucy Long” (see http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/minstrel/lucylongfr.html)
 * "Lucy Neal"/"Lucy Neale" J. P. Carter (1844)
 * "Lynchburg Town"

M

 * "Marty Inglehart Jig", Dan Emmett (1845)
 * "Mary Blane" (a.k.a. "Mary Blain"), Billy Whitlock (1846)
 * "Massa Is a Stingy Man" (1841)
 * "Merry Sleigh Bells"
 * "The Merry Sleigh Ride, Valentine Dister (1852)
 * "Mighty Lak' a Rose", Ethelbert Nevin (1901)
 * "Miss Lucy Long" (a.k.a. "Lucy Long", "Miss Lucy Song"), Dan Emmett and Frank Brower (1844), or Billy Whitlock (1842) or possibly Billy Whitlock (1838)
 * "Moze Haymar Jig", Dan Emmett (1845)
 * "My Old Kentucky Home", Stephen Foster (1853)
 * "My First Jig", Dan Emmett (c. 1840s)
 * "My Long Tail Blue" (1830s)
 * "My Old Aunt Sally" (1843)
 * "My Old Dad"/"Old Dad" (1844)

N

 * "Negro Jig", Dan Emmett (1845)
 * "Nelly Was a Lady", Stephen Foster (1849)
 * "New York Gals", Emma Snow?
 * "The Newton Jig", James Buckley (1860)
 * "Nigga General"
 * "Nigger on de Wood Pile", Dan Emmett (1845)

O

 * "(O Lud Gals) Gib Me [Us] Chaw Terbakur", words by Dan Emmett (1843)
 * "Oh, Come along John" a.k.a. "Walk along John" (1843)
 * "Oh, Dem Golden Slippers, James A. Bland (1879)
 * "Oh, Ladies All!", Dan Emmett (published 1858, probably written in the 1840s)
 * "Oh Lemuel", Stephen Foster (1850)
 * "Oh! Susanna", Stephen Foster (1847)
 * "Old Aunt Jemima, Billy Kersands (1875)
 * "Old Black Joe, Stephen Foster (1860)
 * "Old Bob Ridley", Charles White (1855)
 * "Old Dan Tucker", words by Dan Emmett (1843)
 * "Old Folks at Home", Stephen Foster (1851)
 * "Old Joe", F. M. Brower (1844)
 * "Old Joe Golden"
 * "Old Johnny Boker"
 * "Old King Crow"
 * "Old K. Y. Ky.", Dan Emmett (1860)
 * "Old Tar River"/Ole Tare River" (1840)
 * "Old Uncle Ned", Stephen Foster (1848)
 * "Ole Bull and Old Dan Tucker" (1844)
 * "The Ole Grey Goose" (1844)
 * "De Ole Jawbone" (and variants), perhaps Joel Sweeney (1840)
 * "Ole Pee Dee", J. P. Carter (1844)
 * "Ole Virginny Break Down" (1841)
 * "The One Horse Open Sleigh", (a.k.a. "Jingle Bells") James Lord Pierpont (1857)
 * "Joe Sweeney's Jig", published by Dan Emmett
 * "Owl Creek Quickstep", Dan Emmett

P

 * "Pea Patch Jig", Dan Emmett
 * "Peel's Jig"
 * "Peter Story Jig", Dan Emmett
 * "Philadelphia Gals"
 * "Philisee Charcoal"
 * "Picayune Butler (Ahoo! Ahoo!)"
 * "Picayune Butler's Come to Town" (before 1847)
 * "Polly Wolly Doodle", credited to Dan Emmett, (1843/1878/1880)
 * "Poor Elsie", James Lord Pierpont (1854)
 * "Poor Uncle Tom", A. Sedgwick (1852)
 * "Possum up the Gum-Tree"

Q

 * "Quaker's Jig", R. Myers

R

 * "Ring, Ring de Banjo", Stephen Foster (1851)
 * "Ring the Bell, Fanny", James Lord Pierpont (1854)
 * "Rise Old Napper"
 * "Road to Richmond", Dan Emmett (1864)
 * "Rob Ridley", Charles White (1855)
 * "Rock Susana", Horace Weston (1887)
 * "Roll Out! Heave Dat Cotton", William Shakespeare Hays (1877)
 * "Root, Hog or Die", Dan Emmett (c. late 1840s or early 1850s)
 * "Rosa Lee"

S

 * "Sad to Leave Our Tater Land" (early 1850s)
 * "Sam Johnson's Colored Cake Walk", Dave Braham (1883)
 * "Sandy Boy", possibly Phil Rice (before 1858)
 * "Sandy Gibson's", Dan Emmett (1859)
 * "Seely Simpkins Jig", Dan Emmett
 * "Settin' on a Rail" (1836)
 * "Shoo Fly, Don't Bother Me" (1869)
 * "Sich a Gettin' Up Stairs" (c. 1834)
 * "Singing Darkey of the Ohio"
 * "Skeeters Do Bite"
 * "Sliding Jenny Jig", R. Myers
 * "Someone in de House wif Dinah", possibly Phil Rice (before 1858)
 * "Stop Dat Knocking", A. F. Winnemore (1847)
 * "Sugar Cane Green"
 * "Sugar in a Gourd"
 * "Suke of Tennessee"
 * "Susey Brown"/"Suzy Brown"
 * "Sweep Oh!"

T

 * "Tell Me Josey Whar You Bin" (1840)
 * "There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight, Theodore A. Metz (1896)
 * "To the Cornfields Away"
 * "Tom Brigg's Jig", published by Dan Emmett
 * "Turkey in the Straw", developed from Zip Coon (1861)
 * "Twelfth Street Rag", Euday L. Bowman (1898/1914/1919)
 * "Twill Nebber Do to Gib It up So", Dan Emmett (1843)

U

 * "Uncle Gabriel" (1848)

V

 * "Van Bramer's Jig", published by Dan Emmett
 * "Virginia's Lubly Ground"

W

 * "Walk Along John" (1843)
 * "Walk Jaw Bone" (c. 1840)
 * "Walking for dat Cake", Dave Braham (1877)
 * "Wait for the Wagon", Geo P. Knauff (1851)
 * "Westchester Nigga Song"
 * "Whar Did You Come From?" (subtitled "Knock a Nigger Down"), performed by Joel Sweeney (1840)
 * "Whar Is de Spot We Were Born?"
 * "What O' Dat", Dan Emmett (1859)
 * "Whoop Jamboree Jig"
 * "Who's Dat Knocking"
 * "Who's Dat Nigga Dar a Peepin" (1844)
 * "Wide Awake" a.k.a. "Dar's a Darkey in de Tent", Dan Emmett (early 1859)
 * "[In de/In the] Wild Raccoon Track"
 * "De Wild Goose-Nation", Dan Emmett (1844)
 * "(Won't You Come Home) Bill Bailey", Hughie Cannon (1902)

Y

 * "Yellow Corn"

Z

 * "Zip Coon" (a.k.a. "Old Zip Coon"), performed by George Washington Dixon (1829? 1835?)