Item #039751 Song sheet: OIL ON THE BRAIN. As sung in New-York, Philadelphia, and all the principal cities of the Union, where the fie fever abounds. Oil on the Brain.

Song sheet: OIL ON THE BRAIN. As sung in New-York, Philadelphia, and all the principal cities of the Union, where the fie fever abounds.

New-York: H. De Marsan, [1865?]. Early edition. Eight verses and chorus, in part: "The Yankees boast that they make clocks / Which 'just beat all Creation;' / They never made one could keep time / With our Great Speculation.... Stock's par, stock's up, Then on the wane. / Every body's trouble with 'Oil on the brain.'" DeMarsan comic-heads border. 10" x 6.25". Sealed in archival mylar. Very Good. Item #039751

[Wolf, American Song Sheets, 1690, variant border.].

Price: $25.00

See all items in Sheet Music, pre-1920
See all items by