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1844
Open Thy Lattice Love
1846
There's a Good Time Coming
Autumn Waltz
1847
Lou'siana Belle
What Must a Fairy's Dream Be?
Where is Thy Spirit Mary?
1848
Uncle Ned (Old Uncle Ned)
Stay Summer Breath
Santa Anna's Retreat from Buena Vista
Susanna (Oh! Susanna)
Away Down Souf
Way Down South in Alabama *
1849
Nelly Was a Lady
My Brodder Gum
Dolcy Jones
Summer Longings
1850
Oh! Lemuel!
Mary Loves the Flowers
Nelly Bly
Soiree Polka
Dolly Day
"Gwine to Run All Night" or De Camptown Races
Angelina Baker
Ah! May the Red Rose Live Alway!
Way Down in Ca-i-ro
Molly Do You Love Me?
The Voice of By Gone Days
The Spirit of My Song
The Soiree Polka (arranged for piano, four hands)
I Would Not Die in Spring Time (arranged for vocal quartet)
Turn Not Away!
Village Bells Polka
Lily Ray
1851
Give the Stranger Happy Cheer
Melinda May
Wilt Thou Be Gone, Love?
Mother, Thou'rt Faithful to Me
Sweetly She Sleeps, My Alice Fair
Farewell! Old Cottage
Once I Love Thee, Mary Dear
Ring, Ring de Banjo!
Oh! Boys, Carry Me 'Long
I Would Not Die in Summer Time
My Hopes Have Departed Forever
Laura Lee
Ah! My Child (Ah mon fils)
Old Folks at Home
Old Folks at Home Variations
In the Eye Abides the Heart
Willie My Brave
Eulalie
Farewell My Lilly Dear
1852
Massa's in de Cold Ground
The Hour for Thee and me
I Cannot Sing To-Night
Maggie By My Side
Camptown Races (arranged with guitar accompaniment) *
Laura Lee (arranged with guitar accompaniment) *
1853
Eulalie (arranged with guitar accompaniment)
My Old Kentucky Home, Good-Night!
Oh! Boys Carry Me Long (arranged with guitar accompaniment)
Old Folks Quadrilles
Annie My Own Love
Massa's in de Cold Ground (arranged with guitar accompaniment)
Holiday Schottisch
Old Dog Tray
My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night (arranged with guitar accompaniment)
Willie My Brave (arranged with guitar accompaniment)
Farewell My Lilly Dear (arranged with guitar accompaniment)
Old Memories
Little Ella
1854
The Social Orchestra
Ellen Bayne
Willie We Have Missed You
Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair
Come with Thy Sweet Voice Again
Maggie By My Side (arranged with guitar accompaniment)
Willie We Have Missed You (arranged with guitar accompaniment)
Old Memories (arranged with guitar accompaniment)
Old Dog Tray (arranged with guitar accompaniment)
Ellen Bayne (arranged with guitar accompaniment)
Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair (arranged with guitar accompaniment)
Little Ella (arranged with guitar accompaniment)
Come with Thy Sweet Voice Again (arranged with guitar accompaniment)
Hard Times Come Again No More
1855
Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming
Some Folks
Hard Times Come Again No More (arranged with guitar accompaniment)
The Village Maiden
Comrades Fill No Glass for Me
1856
Gentle Annie
The White House Chair
The Abolition Show (The Great Baby Show)
1857
I See Her Still in My Dreams
Gentle Annie (arranged with guitar accompaniment)
1858
Lula Is Gone
Linger in Blissful Repose
Where Has Lula Gone?
My Loved One and My Own or Eva
Sadly to Mine Heart Appealing
My Angel Boy
Some Folks (arranged with guitar accompaniment) *
1859
Linda Has Departed
Parthenia to Ingomar
For Thee, Love, for Thee
Fairy-Belle
Thou Art the Queen of My Song
1860
None Shall Weep a Tear for Me
The Wife
Poor Drooping Maiden
Cora Dean
Under the Willow She's Sleeping
The Glendy Burk
Jenny's Coming o'er the Green
Beautiful Child of Song
Old Black Joe
Down Among the Cane-Brakes
Virginia Belle
The Little Ballad Girl
1861
Mine Is the Mourning Heart
Don't Bet Your Money on de Shanghai
Molly Dear Good Night
Our Willie Dear is Dying
Lizzie Dies To-Night
Our Bright, Bright Summer Days Are Gone
I'll Be a Soldier
Why Have My Loved Ones Gone?
Oh! Tell Me of My Mother
Farewell Mother Dear
Sweet Little Maid of the Mountain
Farewell Sweet Mother
Little Belle Blair
Nell and I
A Penny for Your Thoughts!
A Thousand Miles from Home
1862
Little Jenny Dow
I Will Be True to Thee
The Merry, Merry Month of May
A Dream of My Mother and My Home
That's What's the Matter
Better Times Are Coming
Slumber My Darling
Merry Little Birds Are We
No One to Love
No Home, No Home
Was My Brother in the Battle?
We Are Coming Father Abraam, 300,000 More
I'll Be Home To-Morrow
Happy Hours at Home
Gentle Lena Clare
We've a Million in the Field
Beautiful Dreamer
1863
The Love I Bear to Thee
Bury Me in the Morning, Mother
Little Ella's an Angel!
Suffer Little Children Come unto Me
Willie's Gone to Heaven
I'm Nothing But a Plain Old Soldier
I'd Be a Fairy
Bring My Brother Back to Me
Oh! There's No Such Girl as Mine
Water's Golden Harp for Sunday Schools
While the Bowl Goes Round
Jenny June
A Soldier in the Colored Brigade
There Are Plenty of Fish in the Sea
When This Dreadful War Is Ended
Lena Our Loved One Is Gone
Katy Bell
Larry's Good Bye
There Was a Time
Willie Has Gone to the War
Kissing in the Dark
For the Dear Old Flag I Die!
The Soldier's Home
My Wife Is a Most Knowing Woman
Oh! Why Am I So Happy?
Onward and Upward!
We Will Keep a Bright Lookout
The Song of All songs
The Athenaeum Collection of Hymns and Tunes for Church and Sunday School
Dearer than Life! (Meet Me Tonight Dearest)
My Boy Is Coming from the War
1864
If You've Only Got a Moustache
Mr. & Mrs. Brown
Wilt Thou Be True?
When Old Friends Were Here
She Was All the World to me
Sitting by My Own Cabin Door
Somebody's Coming to See Me To Night
When Dear Friends Are Gone
Give This to Mother
Tell Me Love of Thy Early Dreams
All Day Long *
Little Mac! Little Mac! You're the Very Man *
1865
The Voices That Are Gone
Our Darling Kate
1866
Sweet Emerald Isle That I Love So Well
1867
What Does Every Good Child Say?
Praise the Lord!
1869
Kiss Me Dear Mother Ere I Die
1896
The Tioga Waltz *
1931
Long Ago Day *
This Will Remind You (This Rose Will Remind You)*
*Doubtful Work
This work is included in a section entitled "Works of Doubtful Authenticity" in The Music of Stephen C. Foster: A Critical Edition by Deane Root and Stephen Saunders. For further information on why this may not be a work of Foster's please consult the Critical Edition (bibliographic information on this book may be found here.)
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