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This is a list of Coon songs or are otherwise closely associated with that genre. Songwriters and publication dates are given where known.

A

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  • "All Coons Look Alike to Me"[1]

B

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  • "The belle of Darktown: plantation song"[2]
  • "The best I get, is "there he goes": a coon wail"[3]

C

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  • "Come back, my honey I'se been waiting"[4]
  • "The Coons Are on Parade"
  • "The coon's breach of promise"[5]
  • "Coon Coon Coon"
  • "Coon Gi'nt (Coon jive)"
  • "Coon Salvation Army"
  • "Coon Schottische"
  • "Coon smiles"
  • "Coon delights"
  • "The Coleville coon cadets"
  • "Creme of coon society"
  • "The coon town chappie"
  • "The coon that I suspected"

D

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  • "The Dandy Coon's Parade"
  • "The dandy coloured coon"[6]
  • "Darktown is out to-night"
  • "Dar's a new coon wedding"
  • "Dat chicken-liftin' coon from Tennessee"[7]
  • "De coon dinner"
  • "De coons am on parade"
  • "The darkies rally"[8]
  • "De ole plantation coon"
  • "Doing de old coon jar"
  • "De coon dat had de razor"
  • "Drowsy Dempsey: a coon shuffle"

E

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F

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  • "Four little curly headed coons"

G

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  • "Gentlemen coons parade"

H

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  • "Hottest coon in Dixie"

I

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  • "I Am Thinking of my Pickaninny Days"
  • "I wonder what is that coon's game"
  • "If the Man in the Moon Were a Coon"
  • "I want a real coon"
  • "It's Up to You to Move (Coon Song)"

J

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K

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  • "Kitta Katta Kyno, or, New zip coon"

L

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  • "Little Alabama coon"[9]
  • "Little cotton dolly"
  • "The luckiest coon in town"

M

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  • "Ma dandy soldier coon"
  • "Ma ebony belle: coon song & refrain"[10]
  • "Ma genuine African blonde"[11]
  • "Mammy's little pumpkin colored coons"
  • "Mary's gone with a coon"
  • "Miss Amorinta Jackson's promenade : coon song & chorus"[12]
  • "My little chocolate cream"[13]

N

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  • "New Coon in Town"[14]
  • "Night was made for coons"
  • "No Coon Can Come Too Black For Me"[15]

O

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  • "Oh! Mr. Coon"
  • "Oh That Beautiful Rag"[16]

P

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  • "The phrenologist coon"
  • "Parthenia took a fancy to a coon"

Q

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R

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  • "Raffling for the coon"
  • "A royal coon"

S

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  • "Syncopated Sandy"[17]
  • "Somebody's done me wrong"[18]

T

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  • "That nasty little copper colored coon"
  • "The Coon from the moon"
  • "The Coon that lived next door"
  • "There's a strange coon in heaven"

U

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V

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W

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  • "Way down Coon Hollow"
  • "Whar's dat coon now?"[19]
  • "When This Country's President Will Be A Coon"

Y

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Z

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Notes

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  1. ^ Hogan, Ernest. "All coons look alike to me: a darkey misunderstanding". repository.library.brown.edu. Brown Digital Repository. Retrieved 20 February 2017.
  2. ^ Washburn, Charles E. (lyricist); Foster, William A. (composer). "The belle of Darktown: plantation song". repository.library.brown.edu. Brown Digital Repository. Retrieved 20 February 2017.
  3. ^ Bren, Joe. "The best I get, is "there he goes": a coon wail". repository.library.brown.edu. Brown Digital Repository. Retrieved 20 February 2017.
  4. ^ Statia, Fred N. words by; Newcomb., Lew. H. music by (1 January 1897). "Come back, my honey I'se been waiting". memory.loc.gov. Retrieved 24 February 2017.
  5. ^ "The coon's breach of promise". NYPL Digital Collections. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
  6. ^ Stratton, Eugene (sung by); Morton, Richard (written by); Le Brun, George (composed by). "The dandy coloured coon". memory.loc.gov. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  7. ^ "Catalogue of Title Entries of Books and Other Articles". U.S. Government Printing Office. 1 January 1898. Retrieved 24 February 2017.
  8. ^ Partridge, W.W. "The darkies rally: song & chorus by W.W. Partridge". The Library of Congress. Retrieved 24 February 2017.
  9. ^ "Little Alabama coon". NYPL Digital Collections. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
  10. ^ Gardenier, Ed. (words); Levi, Maurice. "Ma ebony belle: coon song & refrain". The E. Azalia Hackley Collection of African Americans in the Performing Arts. Rogers Bros. Music Pub. Co. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
  11. ^ Wilson, George R. creator; Suits, Anna (performer). "Brown Digital Repository | Item | bdr:23559". repository.library.brown.edu. Retrieved 24 February 2017.
  12. ^ Cole, Bob; Johnson, Billy. "Miss Amorinta Jackson's promenade: coon song & chorus". Library of Congress Online Catalog. Published by Howley Haviland Co. ; Chas. Sheard & Co. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
  13. ^ Newcomb, Lew H. words by; Hall, John T. music by (1 January 1902). "My little chocolate cream". www.memory.loc.gov. Retrieved 24 February 2017.
  14. ^ Putnam, Jas. S.; sons, S. Brainard's. "New coon in town". The Library of Congress. Retrieved 24 February 2017.
  15. ^ Williams, George; Smart, Walter. "No coon can come too black for me". NYPL Digital Collections. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  16. ^ Irving, Berlin. "Oh, that beautiful rag". NYPL Digital Collections. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  17. ^ Wayburn, Ned; Whiting, Stanley (1 January 1897). "Syncopated Sandy". memory.loc.gov. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  18. ^ Walker, Marshall, Lyricist; Skidmore, Will E., composer. "Somebody's done me wrong; Best "coon shout" ever written". Duke Digital Collections. Retrieved 24 February 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  19. ^ bros, allen; bonbright, stephe s. "Whar's dat coon now?". The Library of Congress. Retrieved 24 February 2017.

References

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  • Abbott, Lynn, & Doug Seroff. Ragged But Right: Black Traveling Shows, Coon Songs, and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi (2007). ISBN 1-57806-901-7.
  • Blesh, Rudi and Harris, Janet; They All Played Ragtime; Alfred P. Knopf; New York: 1950.
  • Dormon, James M. Shaping the Popular Image of Post-Reconstruction American Blacks: The 'Coon Song' Phenomenon of the Gilded Age. American Quarterly 40: 450-471 (1988).
  • Hamm, Charles. Genre, Performance and Ideology in the Early Songs of Irving Berlin. Popular Music 13: 143-150 (1994).

Hubbard-Brown, Janet; Scott Joplin: Composer; Chelsea House; New York: 2006. ISBN 0-791-092-119

  • Mencken, H.L. "Designations for Colored Folk" in Knickerbocker, William Skinkle,Twentieth Century English, Ayer Publishing (1970).
  • Lemons, J. Stanley. "Black Stereotypes as Reflected in Popular Culture, 1880-1920." American Quarterly 29: 102-116 (1977).
  • Peress, Maurice. Dvorak to Duke Ellington: A Conductor Explores America's Music and Its African American Roots Oxford University Press (2003).
  • Reublin, Richard, ed. (April 2001). "Songs of the Moon". Parlor Songs. Retrieved 2014-12-24.
  • Reublin, Richard A. and Robert L. Maine. "Question of the Month: What Were Coon Songs?" Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia website, Ferris State University (May 2005).
  • Sotiroupoulos, Karen. Staging Race: Black Performers in Turn of the century America, Harvard University Press (2006).

See also

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Category:Coon songs Coon songs, list of