* On cover:  Peter F. Dailey's latest success as sung at Weber &amp; Field's Broaddway Music Hall.  Cover includes photograph of Peter F. Dailey.
<ul><li>Summary:  Using stereotyped African American language, the narrator describes times after the Civil war when an African American would work hard farming cotton, then finish and serenade his girlfriend; today all African Americans are swells, and wear fine clothes, but this man still comes to his Sue and serenades her.</li>
<li>Cover design includes drawing of an African American man (i.e. blackface) wearing a straw hat and holding a cane while he speaks to a woman on the second floor of a private home.</li>
<li>Statement of responsibility : words by Harry B. Smith ; music by John Stromberg.</li></ul>
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1899
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