The music and scripts of In Dahomey, edited by Thomas L. Riis

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Musical comedy
With piano acc
Music principally by Will Marion Cook, with additional music by James Vaughan, Alex Rogers, J. Leubrie Hill, and others
Lyrics by Cook, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Alex Rogers, and others
Libretto by Jesse Shipp included, with dialogue: p. xlvii-lxxii
Includes orchestrations of Dat gal of mine, My Dahomian Queen, and On Emancipation Day
Discography: p. 245

Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references and critical commentary

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Contents: Overture -- Brown-skin baby mine -- Caboceers entrance -- Chocolate drops -- The Czar -- Dat gal of mine -- Evah dahkey is a king -- Good evenin' -- Happy Jim -- Hurrah for Captain Kidd -- I may be crazy, but I ain't no fool -- I wants to be a actor lady -- I'll take a kitchen mechanic for mine -- I'm a Jonah man -- Jig -- Leader of the colored aristocracy -- Me an' de minstrel ban' -- Molly Green -- My castle on the Nile -- My Dahomian Queen -- My dear Luzon -- My lady frog -- On Broadway in Dahomey bye and bye -- On Emancipation Day -- On Emancipation Day : [characteristic Negro march and two step] -- Rag-time drummer -- Returned -- A rich coon's babe -- She's dancing Sue -- Society -- Swing along -- That's how the cake walk's done -- When it's all goin' out, and nothin' comin' in -- When Sousa comes to Coon-town -- When the moon shines -- Why Adam sinned

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