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|f_annotation='''JIM ALONG JOSEY.''' AKA - "Jimalong Josie." American, Air (2/4 time).  D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Chaff): AABCD (James Bryan). "Jim Along Josie" was blackface minstrel song by Edward Harper written in 1838 by the minstrel performer Edward Harper, and became a hit as a popular fiddle and dance tune. In his book '''Scandalize My Name: Black Imagery in American Popular Music,''' Sam Dennison suggests the first performance of “Jim Along Josey” was sung by Harper in a blackface drama called '''The Free Nigger of New York'''<ref>Brown, Maya (2017) ""Jim Along Josey": Play-Parties and the Survival of a Blackface Minstrel Song," Excellence in Performing Arts Research: Vol. 4 , Article 3. [https://digitalcommons.kent.edu/epar/vol4/iss1/3]</ref>. The dialect words<ref>Some of items in the Traditional Tune Archive may contain offensive language or negative stereotypes. Such materials should be seen in the context of the time period and as a reflection of the attitudes of the time. The items are part of the historical record, and do not represent the views of the administrators of this site.</ref>, containing racial slurs and allusions, go:
<blockquote>[[File:Jimalong.jpg|650px|thumb|Early sheet music cover]]
''Oh! I'se from Luciananna as you all know,''<Br>
''Dar whare Jim along Josey's all de go,''<Br>
''Dem niggars all rise when de bell does ring,''<Br>
''And dis is de song dat dey do sing.''<Br>
''Hey get along, get along Josey''<Br>
''Hey get along Jim along Joe!''<Br>
''Hey get along, get along Josey ''<Br>
''Hey get along, Jim along Joe!''<Br>
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''Oh! when I gets dat new coat which I expects to hab soon,''<Br>
''Like wise a new pair tight-knee'd trousaloon,''<Br>
''Den I walks up and down Broadway wid my Susanna,''<Br>
''And de white folks will take me to be Santa Anna,''<Br>
''Hey get along, get along Josey,''<Br>
''Hey get along, Jim along Joe!''<Br>
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''My sister Rose de oder night did dream,''<Br>
''Dat she was floating up and down de stream,''<Br>
''And when she woke she began to cry,''<Br>
''And de white cat picked out de black cat's eye.''<Br>
''Hey get along Josey,''<Br>
''Hey get along, Jim along Joe!''<Br>
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''Now way down south not very far off,''<Br>
''A Bullfrog died wid de hooping cough,''<Br>
''And de oder side of Mississippi as you must know,''<Br>
''Dare's where I was christen'd Jim along Joe.''<Br>
''Hey get along, get along Josey,''<Br>
''Hey get along, Jim along Joe!''<Br>
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''De new York niggers tink dey're fine,''<Br>
''Because dey drink de geniune,''<Br>
''De southern niggers dey lib on mush,''<Br>
''And when dey laugh dey say Oh Hush.''<Br>
''Hey get along, get along Josey,''<Br>
''Hey get along, Jim along Joe!''<Br>
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''I'me de nigger that don't mind my troubles,''<Br>
''Because dey are noting more dan bubbles''<Br>
''De ambition that dis nigger feels''<Br>
''Is showing de science of his heels.''<Br>
''Hey get along, get along Josey,''<Br>
''Hey get along, Jim along Joe,''<Br>
<br>
''De fust President we eber had was Gen'ral Washington,''<Br>
''And de one we've got now is Martin Van Buren,''<Br>
''But altho' Gen'ral Washington's dead''<Br>
''As long as de country stands his name shall float ahead.''<Br>
''Hey get along, get along Josey,''<Br>
''Hey get along, Jim along Joe!''<Br>
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The minstrel song was adapted as a vehicle for play parties and was in widespread use throughout the United States in the latter 19th and early 20th centuries. 
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|f_printed_sources=Thomas F. Briggs ('''Briggs' Banjo Instructor'''), 1855; p. 28. Gumbo Chaff ('''The Complete Preceptor for the Banjo'''), 1851; p. 8. Elias Howe ('''Second Part of the Musician’s Companion'''), 1843; p. 56. Joseph Lowe ('''Lowe's Collection of Reels, Strathspeys and Jigs, book 3'''), Edinburgh, 1844–1845; p. 23.
|f_recorded_sources= James Bryan - "Two Pictures" (1995). 
|f_see_also_listing=Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/j03.htm#Jimaljo]<br>
Hear James Bryan's 1995 recording at Slippery Hill [https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/jimalong-josie]<br>
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