Ben Harney - Compositions

Compositions

Ben Harney's compositions included:

1890s

• The Sporting Life is Sure Killing Me
• Tomahau
• Wissahickon

1896

• You've Been a Good Old Wagon but You Done Broke Down, arranged by Johnny Biller
• Mister Johnson, Turn Me Loose
• I Love My Honey

1897

• There's A Knocker Layin' Around
• You May Go, but This Will Bring You Back
• Ben Harney's Ragtime Instructor, arranged by Theodore H. Northrup

1898

• Draw That Color Line: A Decision of Color
• If You Got Any Sense You'll Go

1899

• The Hat He Never Ate, with Howard S. Taylor

1899

• The Cake Walk in the Sky: Ethiopian Two Step, arranged by F.W. Meacham
• The Cake Walk in the Sky: Song
• Tell it to Me: A Coontown Expression
• I Love My Little Honey, arranged by W.H. Mackie
• The Black Man's Kissing Bug: An Interrupted Osculation in Darktown
• I Love One Sweet Black Man

1901

• The Only Way to Keep A Gal is to Keep Her in a Cage
• I'd Give a Hundred if the Gal Was Mine

1902

• T.T.T. (Treat, Trade or Travel)

1913

• There's Only One Way to Keep a Gal, arranged by W. R. Dorsey

1914

• Cannon Ball Catcher

1925

• The Wagon, recorded by Ben Harney on a phonograph cylinder, U.S. Library of Congress