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We are coming sister Mary:: (founded on the superstition of a portion of the colored race, that the approach of death is forewarned in "dream song"

Description

Notes:
written by Henry C. Work; arranged and adapted by E.P. Christy
For voice, piano, and chorus (TTB, melody)
Cover title
Sung by: Christy's Minstrels
Cover illustration: engraving of head of young Afro-American woman.

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No Copyright - United States
Restrictions on Use
Collection is open for research.

Citation

Work, Henry C. (Henry Clay), "We are coming sister Mary:: (founded on the superstition of a portion of the colored race, that the approach of death is forewarned in 'dream song' " (1853). Representations of Blackness in Music of the United States (1830s-1920s). Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:23658/

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