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DANDY BROADWAY SWELL. American, Minstrel Song (2/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABC. The song was published in a folio called Music of the Original Christy Minstrels, published by C. Holt, Jr., in New York in 1848, as well as on single sheets and other songsters of the era. The lyric begins:

Oh what ar dandy niggers? dare's not one dat can compare
Wid dis dandy Broadway swell, when he goes to take de air.
He breaks de hearts of de yaller gals, he's envied by de men,
Look at dis nigger, and you'll say he's de first of dandies den.

CHO.
For he's de kick, de go, de cheese, as ebery one can tell;
De yaller gals he's sure to please, dis fine dandy Broadway swell.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Chaff (The Complete Preceptor for the Banjo), 1851; p. 15.

Recorded sources:

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