O Dem Golden Slippers (Mummers' Hymn) (New Year's)

Inextricably associated with the Philadelphia Mummers and their New Year's Day Parade. Blackface minstrel song in the 19th century, a parody of the early Negro spiritual "Golden Slippers," composed in 1879 by Afro-American songwriter James A. Bland(1854-1911). Bland also wrote "Carry Me Back To Old Virginny" and "In The Evening By The Moonlight."