coon-song

This has been brought home to me as I have sat at sing-songs and have heard a coon-song sung entitled "The Preacher and the Bear."

Thoughts on religion at the front 1911

Those fellows with the badges were sure I was, but Obermuller's eyes only twinkled, and the manager's grin grew broad when, catching up the end of my skirt and cake-walking up and down, I sang under my breath that coon-song that was trailing over and over through my head.

In the Bishop's Carriage Miriam Michelson 1906

Then I picked up my skirts, and whistling a coon-song, started off.

The Lady of the Decoration Little, Frances, 1863-1941 1906

But the rag-time became louder and livelier, and the adherents of the musical Roman began to gradually desert him for coon-song airs.

Idle Comments 1905

Those fellows with the badges were sure I was, but Obermuller's eyes only twinkled, and the manager's grin grew broad when, catching up the end of my skirt and cake-walking up and down, I sang under my breath that coon-song that was trailing over and over through my head.

In The Bishop's Carriage. 1903

Then I picked up my skirts, and whistling a coon-song, started off.

The Lady of the Decoration Frances Little 1902

The violin inside the barber-shop kept scraping out its cheap music -- a coon-song of the day.

The World for Sale, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

The violin inside the barber-shop kept scraping out its cheap music -- a coon-song of the day.

The World for Sale, Volume 2. Gilbert Parker 1897

The violin inside the barber-shop kept scraping out its cheap music -- a coon-song of the day.

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

Marches and dances of a popular kind and the seemingly inevitable coon-song may be regarded as the infant's food of the musical novice.

The Pianolist A Guide for Pianola Players Gustav Kobb�� 1887