- Collection:
- 19th Century Song Book Collection
- Title:
- Near the Lake where Drooped the Willow
- Creator:
- Horn, Charles E. (Charles Edward), 1786-1849
- Contributor to Resource:
- Morris, George Pope, 1802-1864
- Date of Original:
- 1839
- Subject:
- Popular music--United States--To 1901
Horn
Willow - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
- Medium:
- sheet music
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- "Near the Lake Where Drooped the Willow" was a popular song in the 1830s based on the minstrel song "Long Time Ago" as performed by Thomas "Daddy" Rice. Rice purported to have gotten the song from slaves, and he supplies two sets of lyrics, the second called the "de oder [other? older?] song." William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison note that "it is not generally known that the beautiful air 'Long time ago,' or 'Near the lake where drooped the willow,' was borrowed from the negroes, by whom it was sung to words beginning, 'Way down in Raccoon Hollow.' Their book, Slave Songs of the United States, was one of Du Bois's primary sources for the Sorrow Songs. A short write up on "Long Time Ago" can be found at the African American Odyssey exhibit from the Library of Congress. The site also has a link to a reproduction of the sheet music with the cover illustration and the lyrics.
For voice and piano./ Caption title: Near the lake where droop'd the willow./ "Dedicated to N.P. Willis, Esq."/ "NB this air forms no. 1 of a series of national melodies."/ "Engraved on copper by S. Ackerman"--Colophon./ Published also under title: Long time ago./ First line of text: On the lake where droop'd the willow, long time ago.
Published by: Hewitt & Jaques - Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10428/1112
- Language:
- eng
- Holding Institution:
- Valdosta State University. Odum Library. Archives and Special Collections
- Rights:
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