Content: After chorus contains 40 measures of music for piano solo labeled Dance music.
Content: Considered one of the first published ragtime songs.
Content: Harney and Biller credited as co-composers beneath caption title. [Biller was the arranger.]
Content: Photocopy, lacking cover.
Content: Summary: Using ethnic stereotyped language, the narrator describes being in a game of craps when a policeman puts him in jail. The narrator offers farewells to his girlfriend. The narrator goes before a judge saying that he was at a crap game carrying a gun; the judge and jury say he killed three African Americans in the first degree and can not be released on bail.
Statement Of Responsibility: song by Harney & Biller.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 score (4 p.) ; 36 cm.

Languages

English

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b10826013
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b21757455
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): cbf133f0-c591-012f-ebb2-58d385a7bc34

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Notated Music

Date Issued

1896

Cite this item

MLA format

Music Division, The New York Public Library. "You've been a good old wagon, but you've done broke down" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1896. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/cbf133f0-c591-012f-ebb2-58d385a7bc34

APA format

Music Division, The New York Public Library. (1896). You've been a good old wagon, but you've done broke down Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/cbf133f0-c591-012f-ebb2-58d385a7bc34

Chicago/Turabian Format

Music Division, The New York Public Library. "You've been a good old wagon, but you've done broke down" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 5, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/cbf133f0-c591-012f-ebb2-58d385a7bc34

Wikipedia citation

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