Black-faced fairies
- Title
- Black-faced fairies
- LC Subject
- Popular music Sheet music
- Item Locator
- Music ShColl 024479
- Creator
- Thompson, Gwen
- Lyricist
- Thompson, Gwen
- Description
- Under publisher's address: The house devoted to the progress of American music; Stamped on cover in red: Everything for the musician, Oregon Eiler's Music House, Eilers Building, Portland, successors to Graves Music Co.; Plate number: 18073; The back cover a publisher's advertisement with first pages of music of four songs: Oh! Sleep my child, Lindy, Sleepy-Town, and Sleepy Lan'; The color represented in the digital image may differ significantly from the original and may not contain annotations. For annotation information, please contact Music Services.
- First Line
- When de yaller moon am risin' an' yo' eyelids droop
- Instrumentation
- Song for voice and piano.
- Cover
- Caricature of African-American child sleeping in bed surrounded by clouds, moon, stars, and small fairies
- Work Type
- sheet music
- Issued
- 1919
- Identifier
- BLACK FACED FAIRIES
- Rights
- No Copyright - United States
- Publisher
- John Church Company
- Type
- Text
- Format
- application/pdf
- Physical Extent
- 4 p.; color
- Set
- Historic Sheet Music Collection
- Primary Set
- Historic Sheet Music Collection
- Institution
- University of Oregon
- Exhibit
- Women composers
