Gussie Davis - Notable Songs

Notable Songs

  • We Sat Beneath the Maple On The Hill
  • In The Baggage Coach Ahead
  • Footprints In The Snow
  • My Creole Sue
  • She Waited at the Altar in Vain
  • Why Does Papa Stay so Late?

Perhaps his most notable song, Irene, Good Night (1886), entered the folk song repertoire albeit significantly altered as Goodnight, Irene in Negro Folk Songs as Sung by Leadbelly (1936), edited by John Lomax and Alan Lomax.

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