Way Down in Ca-i-ro

DESCRIPTION: "Oh, ladies, don't you blush When I come out to play, I only mean to please you all, And den I's guine away." The singer will die in Cairo. When he is not forced to work too much, "he's singin' all de day." People will hear "de darkey band."
AUTHOR: Stephen C. Foster
EARLIEST DATE: 1851 (ChristysPlantationMelodies-1)
KEYWORDS: love death music
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
ChristysPlantationMelodies-1, p. 11, "Way Down in Ca-i-ro" (1 text)
Wolf-AmericanSongSheets, #2507, p. 169, "Way Down in Cairo" (1 reference)
Roud #30222
NOTES [17 words]: Even by Foster standards, this is exceptional for the amount of racist language. It's really ugly. - RBW
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File: CPS1011

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