Melodies of Buckley's,
New Orleans Serenaders
No. 1  I Hear the Hoofs
No. 2  Haunted Well
No. 3. Pirates Chorus
No. 4. Katy Dean
No. 5. Oh Dinah Take This Hand of Mine
No. 6. Old Log Hut or Row, Row Your Boat

No. 1
"I Hear Dar Hoofs Upon de Hill" (1849)
Written and Composed
by Nelson Kneass (1823-1868) 
  
New York: Firth Pond & Co., 1 Franklin Sq. 
Engraver: Quidor
Plate No. 393. 
[Source: at the Detriot Public Library
(from the Hackley Sheet Music Collection);
Digital ID: dpl-hac-00030.dc 
OCLC Record ID: 50514350]

[SOLO]
I had a bud wid in my garden growing, 
A slip I cheris’d wid a father’s care, 
When other darkeyes round dat plant were hoeing, 
The zepher escence seem’d to fill de air. 
Oh how I watch’d dat little plant while creeping, 
She like a mother all was blyth and gay. 
One night I left her on her palate sleeping 
And in the morning she was stole away. 
One night I left her on her palate sleeping 
And in the morning she was stole away.
[CHORUS]
They stole, they stole, they stole my child away, 
they stole, they stole, they stole my child away. 
[SOLO]
Oh hear me now calling, Oh hear me I pray. 
My heart, my heart am breaking 
For my child, for my child they stole away. 
[CHORUS]
Oh, (hear that voice)
Oh, (hear that voice)
Oh,
I hear their hoofs ipon the hill. 
Her voice is growing fainter still. 
I hear their hoofs upon the hill. 
Her voice is growing fainter still. 
They stole, they stole, they stole my child away 
They stole, they stole, they stole my child away.