I Ain't Got Time to Tarry
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I Ain't Got Time to Tarry
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"I Ain't Got Time to Tarry", also known as "The Land of Freedom", is an American song written by blackface minstrel composer Dan Emmett. It premiered in a minstrel show performance by Bryant's Minstrels in late November 1858. The song was published in New York City in 1859. The lyrics tell of a black man in the Northern United States who is homesick for the South. He decides to return to the South, as illustrated in the chorus: The pining ex-slave scenario was a common idiom of blackface minstre
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Song by Dan Emmett
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2020-12-10T17:57:32Z
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