Wake Nicodemus : song and chorus / words and music by Henry Clay Work.
For voice and piano, with chorus refrain.
First verse printed as text on title page.
Root & Cady was at this address from 1865 until 1871. Cf. Early American sheet music / Dichter and Shapiro.
Advertisements: Sequel to Tramp The Prisoner Free! On, on the Boys Came Marching! on p. [2] and Root & Cady's catalogue of sheet music on p. [6]
Title page ill.: Afro-American man sticking his head out of a tree / Baker, Chicago.
First line of text: Nicodemus, the slave, was of African birth.
First line of chorus: The good time coming is almost here!
Foster Hall Collection cutter no.: AS221.O42.
Price mark on cover: -3 1/2-.
Original publication information: 1865?, c1864.
