* Summary:  Using stereotyped language and terms, the narrator describes Topsy, a well-bred African American woman.
<ul><li>Cover design by Frank Parker includes drawing of a woman with a hat.</li>
<li>Published as the Sunday Wolrd Music Album; supplement to the New York World. Sunday, Dec. 17, 1899.</li>
<li>Song begins with 16 measures of piano music labeled Cake-walk.</li>
<li>Pages 5-6 also contains voice-only music and text for the songs "The Tottenham toreador" by Edward Kent (p. 5) and "The village wedding" by A.E. Lawrence and Geo. Lester.</li>
<li>Statement of responsibility : words by Al. Trahern ; music by Warner Crosby.</li></ul>
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1899
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