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"In the Baggage Coach Ahead" Lyrics, after 1896

 File — Box: 4265.001, Folder: 12
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This file contains a handwritten version of the 1896 folk song "In the Baggage Coach Ahead." The song, by African American songwriter Gussie Davis, is about a man riding a train with his infant child who tells the other passengers that his wife "is dead in the coach ahead." There are five verses of the song included here.

Dates: after 1896
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Wade Hall Collection on Arts and Culture / Poetry, Lyrics, and Other Writings