These pages of (mostly) song lyrics owe their existence to an American Studies class taught by Dr. Heiner Bus at Johannes-Gutenberg- University , Mainz, Germany in the mid-1970s. While going through my collected papers these days, I was struck by the sheer number of song lyrics pertaining to the various stages of American history which had been collected by Dr. Bus and ourselves (his students) at that time -- and since a lot of these papers became yellowed and faded over the last 20 years, I decided to preserve them, transcribe them into HTML-format and eventually include them all on these pages.

All material on these pages is presented for the purpose of study, research, and critical analysis, only.
Not in all cases, the exact source and/or possible copyright holders could be determined.

Many of the Midi files on these pages were sequenced by Werner Tomaschewski, who has his own excellent site dedicated to Stephen Foster and 19th century American music, and who kindly allowed me the use of his files on these pages.

If you have additional information, comments, criticism, or corrections please send me an email

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