Minstrel lyrics archive

[Rick Hadley]

Sometime ago I came across a website with a large collection of lyrics for minstrel music, but I've somehow lost the bookmark.  Anyone know of such a site?  I'm specifically looking for "Peeping Through the Cellar Door", and "Black Cat, White Cat".

[Dave Culgan]

You are already there! Just stroll on over to the door marked "Resources" and look on the shelf for Buckley's 1860 tutor and one by Rice. I think they are in there along with the music. Tim has the best library.

[Rob Kunkel]

I cannot find anything marked "Resources" on this site for "Peepin Through De Cellar Door."

Does anyone think it might be a song from a minstrel show back then? The lyrics are so strange. It certainly was not a slave song. There seems to be a double meaning but I cannot begin to guess what it is. Could "yellow woman" mean someone who has opium and the singer ended up in an opium den?

Thanks from the Virgin Islands.

[halisha thomas howell]

Rob Kunkel said:

I cannot find anything marked "Resources" on this site for "Peepin Through De Cellar Door."

Does anyone think it might be a song from a minstrel show back then? The lyrics are so strange. It certainly was not a slave song. There seems to be a double meaning but I cannot begin to guess what it is. Could "yellow woman" mean someone who has opium and the singer ended up in an opium den?

Thanks from the Virgin Islands.

[halisha thomas howell]

i heard the tune on a cd named "minstrel banjo style",an excellent version is performed by Joe Ayers,white cat,black cat by Thomas D Rice is performed flawlessly by Clark Buehling as well on the same....you can copy th lyrics from the recording...................a yellow gal is a woman who is half bred white and black,with lighter toned skin,like th yellow rose of Texas