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First line/ Refrain:	Ma honey we're invited to a mighty swell affair (first line of text)
Title:	At the coffee cooler's tea : novelty jazz song
Composer:	Sullivan, Alex
Publisher:	M. Witmark & Sons
Date:	1918

First line/ Refrain:	Ma Manda belle, she is a swell (first line of chorus)
Title:	My Manda belle : coon song & chorus
Composer:	Goldsmith, S. R.
Publisher:	M. Witmark & Sons
Date:	1902

First line/ Refrain:	Ma ragtime baby
Title:	Ma rag time baby : two-step
Composer:	Stone, Fred S.
Publisher:	Whitney Warner Pub. Co.
Date:	1898

First line/ Refrain:	Ma ragtime baby, she's the hottest lump of coal in town (first line of chorus)
Title:	Ma ragtime baby : original rag time song & chorus
Composer:	Stone, Fred S.
Publisher:	Whitney Warner Pub. Co.
Date:	1899

First line/ Refrain:	Mackinac march
Title:	Mackinac march : two step
Composer:	Stone, Fred S.
Publisher:	Detroit Music Co.
Date:	1896

First line/ Refrain:	Mah gal's a butterfly (first line of chorus)
Title:	Mah butterfly : darkey love song & refrain
Composer:	Dillea, Herbert
Publisher:	M. Witmark & Sons
Date:	1900

First line/ Refrain:	Mama are there any angels black like me (first line of refrain)
Title:	Little black me : song & refrain
Composer:	Chattaway, Thurland
Publisher:	Howley, Haviland & Co.
Date:	1899

First line/ Refrain:	Mammy is feeling sad today (first line of text)
Title:	Georgia Rose
Composer:	Rosenthal, Harry
Publisher:	Leo. Feist Inc.
Date:	1921

First line/ Refrain:	Mammy Jinny down in Old Virginny (first line of text)
Title:	Mammy Jinny's hall of fame : song
Composer:	Tierney, Harry (Harry Austin)
Publisher:	Jerome H. Remick & Co.
Date:	1917

First line/ Refrain:	Mammy once said you're a dunce (first line of text)
Title:	I love the land of old black Joe
Composer:	Donaldson, Walter
Publisher:	Irving Berlin
Date:	1920

First line/ Refrain:	Mammy's little babykins (first line of text)
Title:	Hush-a-bye ma babykins : Negro lullaby
Composer:	Itzel, John
Publisher:	M. Witmark & Sons
Date:	1902

First line/ Refrain:	Mammy's little coon (first line of chorus)
Title:	Mammy's li'l sugah plum
Composer:	Morrison, Will B.
Publisher:	Craig-Ellis & Co.
Date:	1914

First line/ Refrain:	Mammy's little kinky head (first line of text)
Title:	Yo's honey to yo' mammy jes' the same
Composer:	Kendis, James
Publisher:	Kendis-Brockman Music Co. Inc.
Date:	1917

First line/ Refrain:	Mammy's pickaninny go to sleep sleep sleep (first line of chorus)
Title:	Shadowland : a spooktime lullaby
Composer:	Shannon, J. R.(James Royce)
Publisher:	Grinnell Bros.
Date:	1907

First line/ Refrain:	Mandy Johnson and her beau (first line of text)
Title:	Oh! Mister Brown
Composer:	Von Tilzer, Harry
Publisher:	Harry Von Tilzer Music Pub. Co.
Date:	1906

First line/ Refrain:	Mandy Johnson and her beau (first line of text)
Title:	Oh! Mister Brown
Composer:	Von Tilzer, Harry
Publisher:	Harry Von Tilzer Music Pub. Co.
Date:	1906

First line/ Refrain:	Mandy, my pretty Mandy Lou (first line of chorus)
Title:	Mandy Lou
Composer:	Allen, Thomas S.
Publisher:	Daly Music Publisher
Date:	1911

First line/ Refrain:	Many's de winds been a blowin' (first line of text)
Title:	He done me wrong : (death of Bill Bailey)
Composer:	Cannon, Hughie L.
Publisher:	Howley, Dresser Co.
Date:	1904

First line/ Refrain:	Mary got on at New Haven (first line of text)
Title:	Whoop 'er up! : with a whoop, la! la!
Composer:	Cook, Will Marion
Publisher:	Harry Von Tilzer Music Pub. Co.
Date:	1910

First line/ Refrain:	Massa run (first line of chorus)
Title:	Kingdom coming : song and chorus
Composer:	Work, Henry C. (Henry Clay)
Publisher:	Root & Cady
Date:	1862

First line/ Refrain:	Master is in the cold ground
Title:	Massa's in de cold ground
Composer:	Foster, Stephen Collins
Publisher:	Firth, Pond & Co.
Date:	1852

First line/ Refrain:	Meet me in heaven, was his feeble prayer (first line of chorus)
Title:	Meet me in heaven or, The night funeral of a slave
Composer:	Converse, Charles C. (Charles Crozat)
Publisher:	Oliver Ditson
Date:	1854

First line/ Refrain:	Met a little pickaninny (first line of text)
Title:	Ev'rybody calls me Honey
Composer:	Straight, Charley
Publisher:	Forster Music Publisher Inc.
Date:	1919

First line/ Refrain:	Minnie Gray, Minnie Gray sleeping in the dell (first line of chorus)
Title:	De old church-yard in de lane, or Darling Minnie Gray
Composer:	Rutledge, John T.
Publisher:	F.W. Helmick
Date:	1875

First line/ Refrain:	Minstrel with a light guitar sang to his lady love (first line of text)
Title:	Malinda : beneath your winder
Composer:	Miller, Charles
Publisher:	Howley, Dresser Co.
Date:	1904

First line/ Refrain:	Miss Lindy Lu of Kal'mazoo was disappointed feeling blue (first line of text)
Title:	Paddle your own canoe : a darkey ditty
Composer:	Morse, Theodore F.
Publisher:	F.B. Haviland Pub. Co.
Date:	1905

First line/ Refrain:	Miss Liza loved a bashful coon who'd keep a gazin' at the moon (first line of text)
Title:	I've got a feelin' for you, or, Way down in my heart
Composer:	Morse, Theodore F.
Publisher:	F.B. Haviland Pub. Co.
Date:	1904

First line/ Refrain:	Miss Madame Lee the fortune teller lost a ring an' a necklace too (first line of text)
Title:	You're gwine to get somethin' what you don't expect
Composer:	Williams, Bert
Publisher:	Leo Feist
Date:	c1910

First line/ Refrain:	Miss Mandy Johnson loved a man (first line of text)
Title:	I could love you in a steam heat flat
Composer:	Mullen, J. B.
Publisher:	Harry Von Tilzer Music Pub. Co.
Date:	1903

First line/ Refrain:	Miss Susana Jackson was a great attraction (first line of text)
Title:	You've got to love me a lot
Composer:	Brockman, James
Publisher:	Seminary Music Co.
Date:	1907

First line/ Refrain:	Miss Susie Johnson is as crazy as can be (first line of text)
Title:	I wonder where my easy rider's gone
Composer:	Brooks, Shelton
Publisher:	Will Rossiter
Date:	1913

First line/ Refrain:	Miss Virginia, can I win yer (first line of chorus)
Title:	Miss Virginia
Composer:	Irving, Bob
Publisher:	Chicago American
Date:	1901

First line/ Refrain:	Mister Gideon Strong you've treated me wrong (first line of text)
Title:	You told me you had money in the bank : coon song and chorus
Composer:	Mathews, J. Sherrie
Publisher:	Rogers Bros. Music Pub. Co.
Date:	1899

First line/ Refrain:	Mister Jefferson lord, play that barber shop chord (first line of chorus)
Title:	Play that barber shop chord
Composer:	Muir, Lewis F.
Publisher:	Fred Helf Co.
Date:	c1910

First line/ Refrain:	Mister Johnson loved a darkey gal (first line of text)
Title:	A pork chop is the sweetest flower that grows
Composer:	Browne, Raymond A.
Publisher:	Sol Bloom
Date:	1903

First line/ Refrain:	Mister let me tell you this is no place to be (first line of text)
Title:	Jazzing the blues away
Composer:	Heinrich, Dick
Publisher:	A.J. Stasny
Date:	1918

First line/ Refrain:	Mister let me tell you when the music starts (first line of chorus)
Title:	I've got to dance till the band gits through, Bill Simmons
Composer:	Spink, G. A. (George A.)
Publisher:	M. Witmark & Sons
Date:	1906

First line/ Refrain:	Mister Shubert's serenade is grand (first line of text) 'Cause when your best gal says you're her Marathon kid
Title:	Dat's harmony
Composer:	Williams, Bert
Publisher:	Jerome H. Remick & Co.
Date:	c1911

First line/ Refrain:	Money is de root of evil (first line of text)
Title:	When it's all goin' out, and nothin' comin' in
Composer:	Williams, Bert
Publisher:	Jos. W. Stern & Co.
Date:	c1902

First line/ Refrain:	Moon is sailing low where southern breezes blow (first line of text)
Title:	Pickaninny blues : a waltz lullaby
Composer:	Klickmann, F. Henri (Frank Henri)
Publisher:	McKinley Music Co.
Date:	1919

First line/ Refrain:	Mornin' time's de lovely time (first line of text)
Title:	Dreamin' in de twilight
Composer:	Cox, Lytton
Publisher:	T.S. Denison
Date:	1916

First line/ Refrain:	Mose Brown came a staggerin' home one morn (first line of text)
Title:	Prohibition blues
Composer:	Sweet, Albert C.
Publisher:	M. Witmark & Sons
Date:	1917

First line/ Refrain:	Mose Johnson was a curious man (first line of text)
Title:	Eat, drink and be merry
Composer:	Wilson, George R.
Publisher:	Leo Feist
Date:	1903

First line/ Refrain:	Moses Johnson played piano mighty swell (first line of text)
Title:	That lovin' traumerei
Composer:	Stauffer, Aubrey
Publisher:	Aubrey Stauffer & Co.
Date:	1910

First line/ Refrain:	Most ev'ry evening when the shadows fall (first line of text)
Title:	Pheemie : coon ballad
Composer:	Wayburn, Ned
Publisher:	F.A. Mills
Date:	1901

First line/ Refrain:	Music hall was crowded in a city o'er the sea (first line of text)
Title:	Sing again that sweet refrain, or, Far from the old folks at home
Composer:	Davis, Gussie L.
Publisher:	Spaulding & Gray
Date:	1894

First line/ Refrain:	My baby's a dream, peaches and cream (first line of refrain)
Title:	Walk baby walk, or, The pickaninny cake walker
Composer:	Metz, Theodore A.
Publisher:	Theo. A. Metz
Date:	1897

First line/ Refrain:	My charcoal charmer, my dusky belle (first line of chorus)
Title:	My charcoal charmer
Composer:	Edwards, Gus
Publisher:	Howley, Haviland & Co.
Date:	1900

First line/ Refrain:	My Gal she's the swellest belle in darktown (first line of text)
Title:	My darktown gal
Composer:	Johnson, Lee
Publisher:	The Zeno Mauvais Music Co.
Date:	1897

First line/ Refrain:	My girl aint much to look at (first line of text)
Title:	My Ann Elizer
Composer:	Williams, Malcolm
Publisher:	Myll Bros.
Date:	1898

First line/ Refrain:	My heart is all confusion and upset (first line of text)
Title:	Mah butterfly : darkey love song & refrain
Composer:	Dillea, Herbert
Publisher:	M. Witmark & Sons
Date:	1900

First line/ Refrain:	My heart is ringing, my love I'm bringing (first line of chorus)
Title:	Jungle moon
Composer:	Wenrich, Percy
Publisher:	Victor Kremer Co.
Date:	1909

First line/ Refrain:	My honey boy don't know I'm goin to leave him (first line of text)
Title:	I'll do as much for you
Composer:	Brown, Harry Leslie
Publisher:	Shapiro, Remick and Co.
Date:	1904

First line/ Refrain:	My master is goin whar de broad sea is flowin (first line of chorus)
Title:	Farewell to Georgia
Composer:
Publisher:	Geo. P. Reed
Date:	1847

First line/ Refrain:	My old friend wife was lady's maid (first line of text)
Title:	White folks call it chantecler but it's just plain chicken to me
Composer:	Williams, Bert
Publisher:	Harry Von Tilzer Music Pub. Co.
Date:	1910

First line/ Refrain:	My pa and ma always told me I should not ignore nobody (first line of text)
Title:	My landlady
Composer:	Williams, Bert
Publisher:	Leo. Feist
Date:	[192-?], c1912

First line/ Refrain:	My ragtime baby
Title:	Ma ragtime baby : two-step for piano
Composer:	Stone, Fred S.
Publisher:	Whitney Warner Pub. Co.
Date:	1898

First line/ Refrain:	My ragtime baby
Title:	Ma ragtime baby : original rag time song & chorus
Composer:	Stone, Fred S.
Publisher:	Whitney Warner Pub. Co.
Date:	1899

First line/ Refrain:	My ragtime baby
Title:	Ma rag time baby : two-step
Composer:	Stone, Fred S.
Publisher:	Whitney Warner Pub. Co.
Date:	1898

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