"Emma Snow" (28 Jun 1849)
The Celebrated Ethiopian Song
[Words and Music--anonymous]
Arranged for the Spanish Guitar by Henry Chadwick.

New York: Wm. Hall and Son, 239 Broadway,
  opposite the Park.
Plate No. 407
[Source:
CALL NUMBER
M1.A12V vol. 32 Case Class original bound volumes
PART OF
American 19th-century sheet music. Copyright deposits, 1820-1860 
REPOSITORY
Library of Congress. Music Division. 
DIGITAL ID
sm1849 452050 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/sm1849.452050]

1.
Way down in Alabama, 
  Not bery long ago, 
I knew a yallow charmer, 
  And her name was Emma Snow.
Her eyes were bright as diamonds, 
  And her teeth were pearly white, 
And dey glisten’d in the darkness, 
  Like the stars do in the night.

CHORUS [sung after each VERSE]
But the happy time is ober, 
I’ve only grief and pain, 
For I shall neber neber see 
My Emma Snow again.

2.
We used to go out early
  To hoe de sugar cane,
De time it pass so cheer’ly
  Whar my Emma Snow was seen,
And when our work was ober
  And de night had come again
We danc’d and sung so gaily
  To de banjo’s sweetest strain.

3.
But de happiest heart has sorrow,
  De brightest day has night,
And I lodt my lubly Emma
  By de pizen adders bite,
We missed her in de ebening
  And we hunted far and wide,
We found her in de meadow
  Whar she sicken’d and she died.