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1. What song is about the "blackest thief I know" but is just as much about the fun of singing along with the chorus: "caw Caw CAW!"?
2. What song, with an odd title, became clearer when one realized it was about a steamboat with that name and the singer's desire to ride it to New Orleans?
3. What song from the 1840s centered around a fictional enslaved man from South Carolina, who happily bragged about himself and his family?
4. What emotional song by Henry C. Work celebrated the announcement of the end of the Civil War in 1865? In reality, news could travel faster by telegraph, but that's not as noisy or exciting as the traditional way of spreading news, that Work described.
5. What humorous song consisted of two people, each trying to control what the other did? The song also had sound effects, and potentially could be performed by one person doing both voices.
6. What little-known song, probably from the 1850s or before, talks entirely about feline characters and their relationships?
7. What song told the random adventures of a black man who escaped jail, escaped slavery, helped bury his master, and other amazing feats? He often was performed or pictured as a flatboatman, though his nonsensical name sounded like a Louisiana stew and random trash.
8. Published as early as 1832, what was one of the songs that not only started the minstrel craze, but lent its name to a set of laws much later?
9. What did the vacant chair signify in George F. Root's sentimental song with that title, published during the Civil War circa 1862?
10. The subtitle of the song was "The Raccoon Hunt," but it started out with a man accidentally coming upon a sleeping raccoon who was doing what, according to the main title?
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