Author:Harry S. Miller

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Harry S. Miller

An American-born lyricist and sometimes composer who specialized in quatrains and often wrote using a Georgian Black dialect.

Plays

• The Insurance Agent: An Accentric Character and Comedy Sketch (1898)

Songs

• Barney's Parting (1883)
• The Cat Came Back: A Comic Negro Absurdity (1893)
• If They'd Only Write and Ask Me to Come Home (1895)
• Down in Hogan's Alley (1896)
• He's Goin' to Hab a Hot Time Bye an' Bye: The Greatest Coon Song Published (1898; music by Edward Taylor Paull)
• This Wedding Cannot Be (1898)
• Bring Your Money Home (1899)
• Down Old New England Way (1899; music by Emily Smith)
• I Loves You, Sadie, 'Deed I Do!: An Etheopian Love Song (1899; music by Charles Jerome Wilson)
• I'll Not Go Out with Reilly Any More (1900)
• Oh Joe, Dear Joe (1901)
• The Old Virginia Home (1908; music by Emily Smith)

Undated:

• Can't Loose Me, Charlie
• A Cruel Hiss
• For Your Mother's Sake
• He's Got Feathers in His Hat
• I'm 17 To-day
• It's All Right Now
• Keep Your Eye on Duffy
• Let Her Come Home Again
• My Sister's Beau
• Not on Your Life, Says Dolan
• She's Still Your Wife
• The Telephone Girl
• The Waterbury Watch
• When You're Single

References

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.