Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-11-28
The POPULAR SONGS.

song is soEething that almost drives
the sheet. music clerks in the music
houses in Chicago TO distraction, says
toe Chicago Tribune. People inHist oh
having the latest At the same time
brand new music that nobody on the
street has begun to whistle or the
orohestras In the restaurants to play is
not wanted. 1t must DO rev, but not
too new to have already begun TO gain
popularity, even if it has nut yet reached
extreme heights OF favoritism.
1 Music no matter how popular it
/ becomes, lasts for only short time.
/ N usio more than six months old is
generally drug on the market The
people must have something new. So
all day long the anxious inquiry is
heard at the music stores: What is the
| latest popular musicr &S
| "'Ooon' songs are not SO much in
favor as they were. but the supply is
simply unlimited. These songs are
supposed to be exoruoiatingly funny,
although any lover OF the King lish Ian
guage should shed tears of bitter sad
( ness when no reads them over. Songs
not of the coon variety are gaining
favor all the time. 1t can hardly be
said that the Eoetfy in these songs 10
on q much higher plane than that OF
the coon songs, but, OF course, people
do not concern themselves SO much
about words of popular songs as they do
with the music
There are not 80 many good songs
on the market at present and music
publishers are crying q ond for new
songs that will 20 with the public.
Last spring there were any number of
popular songs tu be had. but the publ G
seems to have whistled aud sung these
all out during the vacation days, when
there was not much else to do, and
now there must be new supply.
:" 1t is hard to say just what Ia the
letest song said clerk in a Chicago
music house last week. There are SO
many that are more or less new and
more or less popular. We have catchy
piecss from all the operas that ae
running and several good things from
the vaudeville theatres and the min
strels. Coed Morning, Carrie, seems
to be taking we'll; the Wedding Of the
Reuben and the Maid ard Little Sister
Mary Green, Ramona and IN Tired
are all in good demand. Go Away
Back aud Sit Down is ca led for good
deal, and so is Paul Diapers MIR.
; Volunteer The songs which have been
running while longer than any OF
] these are still ia big demand, although
| some of the songs popular mouth or
two ago have about been sung to death
l by this time and are soon to be laid
J away in our own pI ivate graveyard,
! where the dust and TIM cobwebs will
I cover them o. er.
! "'Good.by, Dolly Gray, which was
popular last summer, il beginning tc
8 decline, but there is still good cal
o for it. Dolly Gray was called on tc
/. divide honors, however, with one Annie
Q Moore, whose departure was made th,
n theme of q song which achieved grea
9 popularity
: :" Dolly Gray is a sentimental
!, ballad, all about a young and fonc
d lover who hears the call to arms anc
Q sees the marching OF troops and goel
@ to fight for his country. In the secont
O stanza the regiment comes home, blu
the fond lover Ia among those who dee
Z not return ana who has fallen afte
l. Staying 5000 or 1000 of the enemy
y The music is OF martial character ant
y full OF bugle calls and calculate d to fir
Is the patriotism of any audience. Th
IT chorus runs:
o Good-by, Dolly; must leave you,
D. Though it breaks my heart TO go.
10 Something tells me am needed
It At the front to fight the foe.
"a See. the boys 10 blue are marching,
70 And can no longer stay.
y Hark! hear the blgle calling.
q Good-by, Dolly Gray!
IA "Sweet Annie Moore has been sun,
"a everywhere. The story is q sad one
,. Anpie's papa, Owen Moore, like tn
~ parsonage Of the same name 10 the oil
i poem. has gone away, owing more thai
!. he can pay. ~ OF course, he take
80 daughter Annie with him, an
~ naturally th ose who once loved Ami
10 will never see their Annie any more.
ID So the chorus runs:
" Annie Moore, sweet Annie Moore.
ID We will never see sweet Annie any more.
nj She went away one summers day,
az Ana we'll never see sweet Annie any NOR
g. The negro melody and slaIgy word
be- OF the COON songs still give thi
i class Of music steady sale, in spite {
ne the opposition of Prof. Johnny Han
in and the Western Society of Musi
g. Teachers.
rk go Way Back and sit Down.
re now one of the chief favorites of "coon
ny songs. This is the story OF "coon
money to pay for it. He bothers ii
n bartender of one saloon SO that at I'll
oil end of the first verse Re is told to &C
We way back and.sit down. - The chorus
rd heard everywhere.
Go way back and sit down.
oi Coons IN your class ARE easy found;
j., You seldom have money; you never trea
IL Get in your place and take back seat.
Go way back and sit down.
Chicago production which ia fa
disElacing Dolly Gray" and "Swe
Annie Moore" is ''Good MORNING.
'g- Carrie" The first verse runs:
-. In sunny South Car'lina lives an old Au
,as Dinah,
fa And her daughter Caroline.
81 She's winsome, cute and airy, her folks thu
~. call her Carrie,
rs And l hope that some day she'll be min
ne To meet her every evening, when the sta
NO are brightly beaming,
~. Brings JOY and pie jsure to my heart so lon
q, In the light of early dawn with my banjo
ed l awake her from her slumber with ii
me song.
N Then, OF course, comes the ohoru
III which many people are familiar vii
who have never even heard the verse
he Good mornin', Carrie, how do you do Ii
vii morning?
Nd Was you dreamin' bout me, my pref
- maid? .z4
ian, ., Say, look here, Carrie, when we going
Ivy marry?
ice Long springtime, honey? Good norm
VS. babe.
~ ~ A pastoral love story is told in Il
lee "Iloneysuckle and the Bee,'' viii,
Ipo mos mazda nOnt1lar bv isKtno nolo