Lew Johnson's refined colored minstrel songster
Subtitle: containing all the latest and popular songs of the day
Publisher: Publisher not identified
Published: 1887
Place of publication: United States?
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Songsters; Popular music; Minstrel music; Texts
Notes: Without music.

"Lew Johnson, sole proprietor, Allen McDonald, stage manager."

Performing troupe Lew Johnson's Refined Minstrels was active 1890-1897. See The African American Theatre Directory, 1816-1960.

In English.

Some annotations in ink on back cover.

Bound in original illustrated pink paper covers, with a wood engraving on back cover of a African-American gentleman, half-length, in a top hat and plaid (?) suit jacket, probably Lew Johnson / F.V. Co.

As issued; in prefab case, 22 cm.
Table of contents: title: You'll never miss your mother till she's gone --; title: I'm the father of a little black coon --; title: My Nellie's blue eyes --; title: Little Annie Rooney  -- words by Michael Nolan, music by Geo. Le Brun; title: Rock-a-bye baby  -- written by Effie I. Canning. -- Copyright 1886, C.D. Blake & Co.; title: Down went McGinty --; title: Marguerite --; title: I'll take you home again, Kathleen --; title: Massa's in the cold, cold ground --; title: Mother told me so --; title: The maid of the mill --; title: I owe ten dollars fo O'Grady  -- words and music by Harry Kennedy. -- Copyrighted 1887, by M.A. Kennedy; title: Remember, boy, you're Irish. -- Copyrighted 1886, by T.B. Harms; title: As I sat upon my dear old mother's knee --; title: Only an image of her boy --; title: Sally in our alley --; title: Where did you get that hat?  -- as sung by Senator Hamden; title: With all her faults, I love her still --; title: Spanish cavalier. -- Copyrighted by George W. Hagans; title: Kentucky rose  -- sung with great success by John Rice, in Mastodon song and dance; title: Slide, Kelly, slide  -- as sung by Senator Hamden; title: The letter that never came.