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"THIS IS A PERFICT COPY OF THE FIRST 'DIXIE' COMPOSED BY ME IN 1859" EMMETT, D. DECATUR. Autograph Musical Manuscript Signed, twice in the third person within the text, with complete lyrics and notes and title in holograph, notated on 9 machine-drawn staves. 2 pages, folio, written on recto and verso of a single sheet; moderate dampstaining affecting lower quarter of page including a signature, minor creases at lower corners, short closed tears at side edges, minor loss to upper corners, few scattered pin holes. Np, nd
"Dixie's Land. / Composed by Daniel D. Emmett for Bryant's Minstrels, 1859. / . . . N.B. The following Chorus is for all the verses. / . . . Den I wish I was in Dix-ie, Hoo-ray! Hoo-ray! . . . / . . . N.B. This is a perfict [sic] copy of the first 'Dixie' composed by me in 1859. / Attest. Daniel D. Emmett, Author and composer of the song."
