dc.contributor.author	Horn, Charles E.
dc.date.accessioned	2012-05-07T18:18:06Z
dc.date.available	2012-05-07T18:18:06Z
dc.date.issued	1839
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10428/1112
dc.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.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Hewitt & Jaques	en_US
dc.subject	sheet music	en_US
dc.subject	Horn	en_US
dc.subject	Willow	en_US
dc.title	Near the Lake where Drooped the Willow	en_US
dc.type	Musical Score	en_US