in A Hot Old Time in Dixie, going on the road in the coming season; this musical farce was Davis's property with Tom McIntosh. On October 18, 1899, Davis died at home in Whitestone. At the time of his death, Gussie Davis had published more than three hundred songs and certainly left more in manuscript. Selected songs "We Sat Beneath The Maple on the Hill" (1880) "Light House by the Sea" (1886) "Little Footsteps in the Snow" (1886) "Wait Till the Tide Comes In" (1887), words by George Propheter "Why Does Papa Stay So Late?" (1889) "Fatal Wedding" (1893), words by William H. Windom "Only a Bowery Boy" (1894), words by Charles B. Ward "Down in Poverty Row" (1895), music by Arthur Trevelyan "In the Baggage Coach Ahead" (1896) "She Waited at the Altar in Vain" (1897) "My Creole Sue" (1898) "He Is Coming to Us Dead" (1899) Also notable is Davis's "Irene, Good Night" (1886), which entered the folk song repertoire, albeit significantly altered, as "Goodnight, Irene" in Negro Folk Songs as Sung by Lead Belly (1936). Notes References External links Early recordings of Gussie Davis songs, Discography of American Historical Recordings, University of California, Santa Barbara "Tear Jerkers in American Song", at The Parlor Songs Academy 1863 births 1899 deaths Songwriters from Ohio Blackface minstrel songwriters 19th-century American musicians Musicians from Dayton, Ohio People from Whitestone, Queens Janitors