A

• "Alabama Joe
  Alabama Joe
  Alabama Joe was a popular minstrel song of the 19th Century .- Lyrics :A nigger in Alabama lived, dey used to call him Joe, Dis nigger lived to be so old, his head war white as snow. Dis nigger, he war very rich, the poor ones liked him well,...
  
  " (a.k.a. "Shall Trelawney Die") (before 1855)
• "The Arkansas Traveler
  The Arkansas Traveler (song)
  "The Arkansas Traveler" was the state song of Arkansas from 1949 to 1963; it has been the state historical song since 1987. The music was composed in the 19th century by Colonel Sanford C...
  
  "
• "At Night When de Nigga's Work Is Done"

B

• "Babylon Is Fallen", Henry Clay Work
  Henry Clay Work
  Henry Clay Work was an American composer and songwriter.-Biography:He was born in Middletown, Connecticut, to Alanson and Amelia Work. His father opposed slavery, and Work was himself an active abolitionist and Union supporter...
  
   (1863)
• "Back Side of Albany"
• "The Band of Niggers! From 'Ole Virginny State'" (1844)
• "The Bee-Gum", G. Willig (1833)
• "Billy Patterson", Dan Emmett
  Dan Emmett
  Daniel Decatur "Dan" Emmett was an American songwriter and entertainer, founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition.-Biography:...
  
   (1860)
• "The Black Brigade", Dan Emmett
  Dan Emmett
  Daniel Decatur "Dan" Emmett was an American songwriter and entertainer, founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition.-Biography:...
  
   (1863)
• "Blue Tail Fly
  Blue Tail Fly
  "Blue Tail Fly", "De Blue Tail Fly", or "Jimmy Crack Corn" is thought to be a blackface minstrel song, first performed in the United States in the 1840s that remains a popular children's song today....
  
  " (a.k.a. "Jimmy Crack Corn") c. 1846
• "The Boatman's Dance
  The Boatman's Dance
  The Boatman's Dance is a minstrel song credited to Dan Emmett in 1843 and arranged by Aaron Copland as part of his set of Old American Songs....
  
  ", credited to Dan Emmett
  Dan Emmett
  Daniel Decatur "Dan" Emmett was an American songwriter and entertainer, founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition.-Biography:...
  
   (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

C

• "Camptown Races
  Camptown Races
  Gwine to Run All Night, or De Camptown Races is a minstrel song by Stephen Foster . It was probably composed in Cincinnati in 1849, according to Richard Jackson, and published by F. D. Benteen of Baltimore, Maryland, in February 1850...
  
  ", Stephen Foster
  Stephen Foster
  Stephen Collins Foster , known as the "father of American music", was the pre-eminent songwriter in the United States of the 19th century...
  
  , (1850)
• "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny
  Carry Me Back to Old Virginny
  "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" is a song which was written by James A. Bland , an African American minstrel who wrote over 700 folk songs...
  
  "* James A. Bland
  James A. Bland
  James Alan Bland , also known as Jimmy Bland, was an African American musician and song writer.-Biography:...
  
  
• "Charleston Gals" (1844)
• "Ching a Ring Chaw
  Ching a Ring Chaw
  Ching a Ring Chaw is a song from the early days of the Minstrel tradition included by Aaron Copland in his Old American Songs....
  
  "
• "Claire de Kitchen", performed as early as 1832 by T. D. Rice and George Washington Dixon
  George Washington Dixon
  George Washington Dixon was an American singer, stage actor, and newspaper editor. He rose to prominence as a blackface performer after performing "Coal Black Rose", "Zip Coon", and similar songs...
  
  
• "Clar de Track
  Clar de Track
  "Clar de Track" is an American song written for the blackface minstrel show stage. The song was a parody of the minstrel hit "Old Dan Tucker".-References:...
  
  ", 1840s.
• "Clem Titus' Jig", published by Dan Emmett
  Dan Emmett
  Daniel Decatur "Dan" Emmett was an American songwriter and entertainer, founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition.-Biography:...
  
  
• "Coal Black Rose
  Coal Black Rose
  "Coal Black Rose" is a folk song, one of the earliest songs to be sung by a man in blackface. The song was first performed in the United States in the late 1820s, possibly by George Washington Dixon. It was certainly Dixon who popularized the song when he put on three blackface performances at the...
  
  " (c. 1829)
• "Come Back Stephen"/"Come Back Steben"
• "Cornfield Green"
• "Cynthia Sue"

D

• "Dandy Broadway Swell", Elias Howe
  Elias Howe
  Elias Howe, Jr. was an American inventor and sewing machine pioneer.-Early life & family:Howe was born on July 9, 1819 to Dr. Elias Howe, Sr. and Polly Howe in Spencer, Massachusetts. Howe spent his childhood and early adult years in Massachusetts where he apprenticed in a textile factory in...
  
   (1849)
• "Dandy Jim from Caroline" (and variants), Dan Emmett
  Dan Emmett
  Daniel Decatur "Dan" Emmett was an American songwriter and entertainer, founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition.-Biography:...
  
   (c. 1844)
• "Dar He Goes! Dats Him!", Dan Emmett
  Dan Emmett
  Daniel Decatur "Dan" Emmett was an American songwriter and entertainer, founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition.-Biography:...
  
   (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"
• "Dearest May"
• "Dick Myers' Jig", published by Dan Emmett
  Dan Emmett
  Daniel Decatur "Dan" Emmett was an American songwriter and entertainer, founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition.-Biography:...
  
  
• "Dinah's Wedding Day"
• "Division Street Jig", Z. Bacchus
• "Dixie
  Dixie (song)
  Countless lyrical variants of "Dixie" exist, but the version attributed to Dan Emmett and its variations are the most popular. Emmett's lyrics as they were originally intended reflect the mood of the United States in the late 1850s toward growing abolitionist sentiment. The song presented the point...
  
  " (a.k.a. "Dixie's Land", "I Wish I Was in Dixie"), usually attributed to Dan Emmett
  Dan Emmett
  Daniel Decatur "Dan" Emmett was an American songwriter and entertainer, founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition.-Biography:...
  
  , 1859
• "Do Fare You Well Ladies" (1840s)
• "Do I Do I Don't Do Nothing" (1825)
• "Dr. Hekok Jig", Z. Bacchus, published by Dan Emmett
  Dan Emmett
  Daniel Decatur "Dan" Emmett was an American songwriter and entertainer, founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition.-Biography:...
  
  (Nathan 200, 203, 208, 486-7)

E

• "Eelam Moore Jig", Dan Emmett
  Dan Emmett
  Daniel Decatur "Dan" Emmett was an American songwriter and entertainer, founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition.-Biography:...
  
   (before 1854)
• "Effects of the Brogue", (a.k.a. "Tatter Jack") Dan Emmett
  Dan Emmett
  Daniel Decatur "Dan" Emmett was an American songwriter and entertainer, founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition.-Biography:...
  
   (by 1861)

F

• "Far [Fare] You Well Ladies"
• "Farewell My Lilly Dear", Stephen Foster
  Stephen Foster
  Stephen Collins Foster , known as the "father of American music", was the pre-eminent songwriter in the United States of the 19th century...
  
   (1851)
• "The Fine Old Color'd Gentleman", Dan Emmett
  Dan Emmett
  Daniel Decatur "Dan" Emmett was an American songwriter and entertainer, founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition.-Biography:...
  
   (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
  Dan Emmett
  Daniel Decatur "Dan" Emmett was an American songwriter and entertainer, founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition.-Biography:...
  
  
• "Genuine Negro Jig", published by Dan Emmett
  Dan Emmett
  Daniel Decatur "Dan" Emmett was an American songwriter and entertainer, founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition.-Biography:...
  
  
• "Get Up in de Morning"
• "Ginger Blue" (1841)
• "Grape Vine Twist"
• "Gonna Eat Ma Chicken 'Til I'm Fried"
• "Gray Goose and Gander"
• "Guinea Maid"
• "Gumbo Chaff
  Gumbo Chaff
  "Gumbo Chaff", also spelled "Gombo Chaff", is an American song, first performed in the early 1830s. It was part of the repertoire of early blackface performers, including Thomas D. Rice and George Washington Dixon....
  
  " (a.k.a. "Gombo Chaff"), early 1830s
• "Gwine to de Mill", Jay R. Jenkins (1846)

H

• "Happy Are We Darkies So Gay"
• "Hard Times", Tom Briggs
  Tom Briggs
  Tom Briggs is an Arena Football League defensive lineman for the Tampa Bay Storm. He was originally signed by the Birmingham Barracudas of the Canadian Football League...
  
   (1855)
• "Hell on the Wabash Jig"
• "High Daddy", Dan Emmett
  Dan Emmett
  Daniel Decatur "Dan" Emmett was an American songwriter and entertainer, founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition.-Biography:...
  
   (1863)
• "Hop Light, Loo", Dan Emmett
  Dan Emmett
  Daniel Decatur "Dan" Emmett was an American songwriter and entertainer, founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition.-Biography:...
  
   (before 1854)
• "Hot Corn"

I

• "I Ain't Got Time to Tarry
  I Ain't Got Time to Tarry
  "I Ain't Got Time to Tarry", also known as "The Land of Freedom", is an American song written by blackface minstrel composer Dan Emmett. It premiered in a minstrel show performance by Bryant's Minstrels in late November 1858. The song was published in New York City in 1859.The lyrics tell of a...
  
  " (a.k.a. "The Land of Freedom"), Dan Emmett
  Dan Emmett
  Daniel Decatur "Dan" Emmett was an American songwriter and entertainer, founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition.-Biography:...
  
   (1858)
• "I'm Going Home to Dixie
  I'm Going Home to Dixie
  "I'm Going Home to Dixie" is an American walkaround, a type of dance song. It was written by Dan Emmett in 1861 as a sequel to the immensely popular walkaround "Dixie". The sheet music was first published that same year by Firth, Pond & Company in an arrangement by C. S. Grafully...
  
  ", Dan Emmett
  Dan Emmett
  Daniel Decatur "Dan" Emmett was an American songwriter and entertainer, founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition.-Biography:...
  
   (1861)
• "I'm Gwine ober de Mountain
  I'm Gwine ober de Mountain
  "I'm Gwine ober de Mountain", also spelled "I'm Going ober de Mountain", is an American song written by blackface minstrel composer Dan Emmett. The song may be a precursor to "Dixie", as evidenced by its line "Away down south in de Kentuck brake"; in comparison, "Dixie" includes the line, "Away...
  
  ", Dan Emmett
  Dan Emmett
  Daniel Decatur "Dan" Emmett was an American songwriter and entertainer, founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition.-Biography:...
  
   (1843)
• "I Saw the Beam in My Sister's Eye"
• "Ireland and Virginia"

J

• "Jack on the Green", Dan Emmett
  Dan Emmett
  Daniel Decatur "Dan" Emmett was an American songwriter and entertainer, founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition.-Biography:...
  
  
• "James Crow", Sam Carusi (1832)
• "Jenny Get Your Hoe Cake Done", popularized by Joel Sweeney
  Joel Sweeney
  Joel Walker Sweeney , also known as Joe Sweeney, was a musician and early blackface minstrel performer. Born to a farming family in Buckingham County, Virginia, he claimed to have learned to play the banjo from local African-Americans and is the earliest documented white banjo player...
  
   (1840)
• "Jim Along Josey", credited to "an Eminent professor" and performed by John N. Smith
  John N. Smith
  John N. Smith is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He began his career making documentary and short films before moving on to feature films and then finally working primarily in television. His work has been nominated in the Academy Awards, Genie Awards, and Gemini Awards, but has only...
  
   (1840)
• "Jim Brown
  Jim Brown
  James Nathaniel "Jim" Brown is an American former professional football player who has also made his mark as an actor. He is best known for his exceptional and record-setting nine-year career as a running back for the NFL Cleveland Browns from 1957 to 1965. In 2002, he was named by Sporting News...
  
  " (1835)
• "Jim Crow" (2007) John Mellencamp from the cd "Freedom's Road"
• "Joe Sweeney's Jig", published by Dan Emmett
  Dan Emmett
  Daniel Decatur "Dan" Emmett was an American songwriter and entertainer, founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition.-Biography:...
  
  
• "Johnny Boker or De Broken Yoke in de Coaling Ground" (1840)
• "Johnny Roach
  Johnny Roach
  "Johnny Roach" is an American song written by blackface minstrel composer Dan Emmett. The song was first published in 1859. The lyrics tell of a slave who has escaped to the Northern United States. He laments his lost plantation home and realizes that he really belongs in the South:*Nathan, Hans ....
  
  ", Dan Emmett
  Dan Emmett
  Daniel Decatur "Dan" Emmett was an American songwriter and entertainer, founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition.-Biography:...
  
   (1859)
• "Jolly Raftsman"
• "Jordan Is a Hard Road to Travel", Dan Emmett
  Dan Emmett
  Daniel Decatur "Dan" Emmett was an American songwriter and entertainer, founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition.-Biography:...
  
   (1853)
• "The Jolly Raftsman"
• "Juba"
• "Juber" (1840s)
• "Jumbo Jum" (1840)
• "Jump Jim Crow
  Jump Jim Crow
  Jump Jim Crow is a song and dance from 1828 that was done in blackface by white comedian Thomas Dartmouth "Daddy" Rice. The first song sheet edition appeared in the early 1830s, published by E. Riley. The number was supposedly inspired by the song and dance of a crippled African slave called Jim...
  
  ", (c. 1823, popularized by T.D. Rice in 1828)

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
  John Cole
  John Cole is a British journalist and broadcaster. He was the BBC's Political Editor from 1981 to 1992.John Cole was educated at the Belfast Royal Academy and at the University of London...
  
   (1833)
• "Loozyanna Low Grounds", Dan Emmett
  Dan Emmett
  Daniel Decatur "Dan" Emmett was an American songwriter and entertainer, founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition.-Biography:...
  
   (1859)
• "Lucy Neal"/"Lucy Neale" J. P. Carter (1844)
• "Lynchburg Town"

M

• "Marty Inglehart Jig", Dan Emmett
  Dan Emmett
  Daniel Decatur "Dan" Emmett was an American songwriter and entertainer, founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition.-Biography:...
  
   (1845)
• "Mary Blane
  Mary Blane
  "Mary Blane", also known as "Mary Blain" and other variants, is an American song that was popularized in the blackface minstrel show. Several different versions are known, but all feature a male protagonist singing of his lover Mary Blane, her abduction, and eventual death...
  
  " (a.k.a. "Mary Blain"), Billy Whitlock
  Billy Whitlock
  William M. "Billy" Whitlock was an American blackface performer. He began his career in entertainment doing blackface banjo routines in circuses and dime shows, and by 1843, he was well known in New York City. He is best known for his role in forming the original minstrel troupe, the Virginia...
  
   (1846)
• "Massa Is a Stingy Man" (1841)
• "Merry Sleigh Bells"
• "Miss Lucy Long
  Miss Lucy Long
  "Miss Lucy Long", also known as "Lucy Long" and other variants, is an American song that was popularized in the blackface minstrel show. A comic banjo tune, the lyrics, written in exaggerated Black Vernacular English, tell of the courtship or marriage of the male singer and the title character...
  
  " (a.k.a. "Lucy Long", "Miss Lucy Song"), Dan Emmett
  Dan Emmett
  Daniel Decatur "Dan" Emmett was an American songwriter and entertainer, founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition.-Biography:...
  
   and Frank Brower
  Frank Brower
  Francis "Frank" Marion Brower was an American blackface performer active in the mid-19th century. Brower began performing blackface song-and-dance acts in circuses and variety shows when he was 13. He eventually introduced the bones to his act, helping to popularize it as a blackface instrument...
  
   (1844), or Billy Whitlock (1842) or possibly Billy Whitlock
  Billy Whitlock
  William M. "Billy" Whitlock was an American blackface performer. He began his career in entertainment doing blackface banjo routines in circuses and dime shows, and by 1843, he was well known in New York City. He is best known for his role in forming the original minstrel troupe, the Virginia...
  
   (1838)
• "Moze Haymar Jig", Dan Emmett
  Dan Emmett
  Daniel Decatur "Dan" Emmett was an American songwriter and entertainer, founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition.-Biography:...
  
   (1845)
• "My Old Kentucky Home
  My Old Kentucky Home
  "My Old Kentucky Home" is a minstrel song by Stephen Foster , probably composed in 1852. It was published as "My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night" in January 1853 by Firth, Pond, & Co. of New York...
  
  ", Stephen Foster
  Stephen Foster
  Stephen Collins Foster , known as the "father of American music", was the pre-eminent songwriter in the United States of the 19th century...
  
   (1853)
• "My First Jig", Dan Emmett
  Dan Emmett
  Daniel Decatur "Dan" Emmett was an American songwriter and entertainer, founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition.-Biography:...
  
   (c. 1840s)
• "My Long Tail Blue" (1830s)
• "My Old Aunt Sally" (1843)
• "My Old Dad"/"Old Dad" (1844)

N

• "Negro Jig", Dan Emmett
  Dan Emmett
  Daniel Decatur "Dan" Emmett was an American songwriter and entertainer, founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition.-Biography:...
  
   (1845)
• "Nelly Was a Lady", Stephen Foster
  Stephen Foster
  Stephen Collins Foster , known as the "father of American music", was the pre-eminent songwriter in the United States of the 19th century...
  
   (1849)
• "New York Gals", Emma Snow?
• "The Newton Jig", James Buckley
  James Buckley
  James Buckley may refer to:* James Buckley , English actor who stars in The Inbetweeners* James Buckley , Roman Catholic bishop of Geras...
  
   (1860)
• "Nigga General"
• "Nigger on de Wood Pile", Dan Emmett
  Dan Emmett
  Daniel Decatur "Dan" Emmett was an American songwriter and entertainer, founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition.-Biography:...
  
   (1845)

O

• "(O Lud Gals,) Gib Me [Us] Chaw Terbakur", words by Dan Emmett
  Dan Emmett
  Daniel Decatur "Dan" Emmett was an American songwriter and entertainer, founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition.-Biography:...
  
   (1843)
• "Oh, Come along John" a.k.a. "Walk along John" (1843)
• "Oh, Ladies All!", Dan Emmett
  Dan Emmett
  Daniel Decatur "Dan" Emmett was an American songwriter and entertainer, founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition.-Biography:...
  
   (published 1858, probably written in the 1840s)
• "Oh Lemuel", Stephen Foster
  Stephen Foster
  Stephen Collins Foster , known as the "father of American music", was the pre-eminent songwriter in the United States of the 19th century...
  
   (1850)
• "Oh! Susanna
  Oh! Susanna
  "Oh! Susanna" is a minstrel song by Stephen Foster . It was published by W. C. Peters & Co. in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1848. The song was introduced by a local quintette at a concert in Andrews' Eagle Ice Cream Saloon in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on September 11, 1847. Foster was said to have written...
  
  ", Stephen Foster
  Stephen Foster
  Stephen Collins Foster , known as the "father of American music", was the pre-eminent songwriter in the United States of the 19th century...
  
   (1847)
• "Old Bob Ridley", Charles White (1855)
• "Old Dan Tucker
  Old Dan Tucker
  "Old Dan Tucker", also known as "Ole Dan Tucker", "Dan Tucker", and other variants, is a popular American song. Its origins remain obscure; the tune may have come from oral tradition, and the words may have been written by songwriter and performer Dan Emmett...
  
  ", words by Dan Emmett
  Dan Emmett
  Daniel Decatur "Dan" Emmett was an American songwriter and entertainer, founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition.-Biography:...
  
   (1843)
• "Old Folks at Home
  Old Folks at Home
  "Old Folks at Home" is a minstrel song written by Stephen Foster in 1851. It was intended to be performed by the New York blackface troupe Christy's Minstrels. E. P. Christy, the troupe's leader, appears on early printings of the sheet music as the song's creator...
  
  ", Stephen Foster
  Stephen Foster
  Stephen Collins Foster , known as the "father of American music", was the pre-eminent songwriter in the United States of the 19th century...
  
   (1851)
• "Old Joe
  Old Joe
  The Joseph Chamberlain Memorial Clock Tower is a campanile located in Chancellor's court at the University of Birmingham in the West Midlands of England. It is the tallest free-standing clock tower in the world, although its actual height is the subject of some confusion...
  
  ", F. M. Brower (1844)
• "Old Joe Golden"
• "Old Johnny Boker"
• "Old King Crow"
• "Old K. Y. Ky.", Dan Emmett
  Dan Emmett
  Daniel Decatur "Dan" Emmett was an American songwriter and entertainer, founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition.-Biography:...
  
   (1860)
• "Old Tar River"/Ole Tare River" (1840)
• "Old Uncle Ned", Stephen Foster
  Stephen Foster
  Stephen Collins Foster , known as the "father of American music", was the pre-eminent songwriter in the United States of the 19th century...
  
   (1848)
• "Ole Bull and Old Dan Tucker
  Ole Bull and Old Dan Tucker
  "Ole Bull and Old Dan Tucker" is a traditional American song. Several different versions are known, the earliest published in 1844 by the Boston-based Charles Keith company. The song's lyrics tell of the rivalry and contest of skill between Ole Bull and Dan Tucker...
  
  " (1844)
• "The Ole Grey Goose" (1844)
• "De Ole Jawbone" (and variants), perhaps Joel Sweeney
  Joel Sweeney
  Joel Walker Sweeney , also known as Joe Sweeney, was a musician and early blackface minstrel performer. Born to a farming family in Buckingham County, Virginia, he claimed to have learned to play the banjo from local African-Americans and is the earliest documented white banjo player...
  
   (1840)
• "Ole Pee Dee", J. P. Carter (1844)
• "Ole Virginny Break Down" (1841)
• "Owl Creek Quickstep
  Owl Creek Quickstep
  "Owl Creek Quickstep" was a song written by American songwriter Dan Emmett. The title refers to one of the earliest settlements in Knox County, Ohio. It was commonly sung by blackface minstrels.-References:...
  
  ", Dan Emmett
  Dan Emmett
  Daniel Decatur "Dan" Emmett was an American songwriter and entertainer, founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition.-Biography:...
  
  

P

• "Pea Patch Jig", Dan Emmett
  Dan Emmett
  Daniel Decatur "Dan" Emmett was an American songwriter and entertainer, founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition.-Biography:...
  
  
• "Peel's Jig"
• "Peter Story Jig", Dan Emmett
  Dan Emmett
  Daniel Decatur "Dan" Emmett was an American songwriter and entertainer, founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition.-Biography:...
  
  
• "Philadelphia Gals"
• "Philisee Charcoal"
• "Picayune Butler (Ahoo! Ahoo!)"
• "Picayune Butler's Come to Town" (before 1847)
• "Possum up the Gum-Tree"

R

• "Ring, Ring De Banjo", Stephen Foster
  Stephen Foster
  Stephen Collins Foster , known as the "father of American music", was the pre-eminent songwriter in the United States of the 19th century...
  
   (1851)
• "Rise Old Napper"
• "Road to Richmond", Dan Emmett
  Dan Emmett
  Daniel Decatur "Dan" Emmett was an American songwriter and entertainer, founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition.-Biography:...
  
   (1864)
• "Rob Ridley", Charles White (1855)
• "Rock Susana", Horace Weston (1887)
• "Root, Hog or Die", Dan Emmett
  Dan Emmett
  Daniel Decatur "Dan" Emmett was an American songwriter and entertainer, founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition.-Biography:...
  
   (c. late 1840s or early 1850s)
• "Rosa Lee"

S

• "Sad to Leave Our Tater Land" (early 1850s)
• "Sandy Boy", possibly Phil Rice
  Phil Rice
  Phil Rice is a platinum-selling songwriter, piano and keyboard player, and teacher. He is part of a successful songwriting and performing partnership with Rick Guard...
  
   (before 1858)
• "Sandy Gibson's", Dan Emmett
  Dan Emmett
  Daniel Decatur "Dan" Emmett was an American songwriter and entertainer, founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition.-Biography:...
  
   (1859)
• "Seely Simpkins Jig
  Seely Simpkins Jig
  "Seely Simpkins Jig" is a song by American songwriter Dan Emmett. Emmett named the song for Seeley Simpkins, a resident of Knox County, Ohio, well known for his fiddle playing and whistling. Simpkins' property neighbored that of Thomas Snowden, a man whom Howard L. and Judith Sacks credit with...
  
  ", Dan Emmett
  Dan Emmett
  Daniel Decatur "Dan" Emmett was an American songwriter and entertainer, founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition.-Biography:...
  
  
• "Settin' on a Rail" (1836)
• "Shew Fly" (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
  Phil Rice
  Phil Rice is a platinum-selling songwriter, piano and keyboard player, and teacher. He is part of a successful songwriting and performing partnership with Rick Guard...
  
   (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)
• "To the Cornfields Away"
• "Tom Brigg's Jig", published by Dan Emmett
  Dan Emmett
  Daniel Decatur "Dan" Emmett was an American songwriter and entertainer, founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition.-Biography:...
  
  
• "Turkey in the Straw
  Turkey in the Straw
  "Turkey in the Straw" is a well-known American folk song dating from the early 19th century.The song's tune was first popularized in the late 1820s and early 1830s by blackface performers, notably George Washington Dixon, Bob Farrell and George Nichols. Another song, "Zip Coon", was sung to the...
  
  ", words by Dan Emmett
  Dan Emmett
  Daniel Decatur "Dan" Emmett was an American songwriter and entertainer, founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition.-Biography:...
  
  
• "'Twill Nebber Do to Gib It up So", Dan Emmett
  Dan Emmett
  Daniel Decatur "Dan" Emmett was an American songwriter and entertainer, founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition.-Biography:...
  
   (1843)

W

• "Walk Along John
  Walk Along John
  "Walk Along John", also known as "Oh, Come Along John", is an American song written for the blackface minstrel show stage in 1843. The lyrics of the song are typical of those of the early minstrel show. They are largely nonsense about a black man who boasts about his exploits.The chorus goes:*...
  
  " (1843)
• "Walk Jaw Bone" (c. 1840)
• "Westchester Nigga Song"
• "Whar Did You Come From?" (subtitled "Knock a Nigger Down"), performed by Joel Sweeney
  Joel Sweeney
  Joel Walker Sweeney , also known as Joe Sweeney, was a musician and early blackface minstrel performer. Born to a farming family in Buckingham County, Virginia, he claimed to have learned to play the banjo from local African-Americans and is the earliest documented white banjo player...
  
   (1840)
• "Whar Is de Spot We Were Born?"
• "What O' Dat", Dan Emmett
  Dan Emmett
  Daniel Decatur "Dan" Emmett was an American songwriter and entertainer, founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition.-Biography:...
  
   (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
  Dan Emmett
  Daniel Decatur "Dan" Emmett was an American songwriter and entertainer, founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition.-Biography:...
  
   (early 1859)
• "[In de/In the] Wild Raccoon Track"
• "De Wild Goose-Nation
  De Wild Goose-Nation
  "De Wild Goose-Nation" is an American song composed by blackface minstrel performer Dan Emmett.The song is a parody of "Gumbo Chaff", a blackface minstrel song dating to the 1830s; the music of most closely resembles an 1844 version of that song...
  
  ", Dan Emmett
  Dan Emmett
  Daniel Decatur "Dan" Emmett was an American songwriter and entertainer, founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition.-Biography:...
  
   (1844)

Z

• "Zip Coon" (a.k.a. "Old Zip Coon"), performed by George Washington Dixon
  George Washington Dixon
  George Washington Dixon was an American singer, stage actor, and newspaper editor. He rose to prominence as a blackface performer after performing "Coal Black Rose", "Zip Coon", and similar songs...
  
  (1829? 1835?)