1860 The Nightingale, Songs & Hymns, early printing of "Dixie Land"

Perkins, W. O.; Perkins, H. S. The Nightingale; A Choice Collection of Songs, Chants and Hymns, designed for the use of Juvenile Classes, Public Schools, and Seminaries; containing also a Complete and Concise System of Elementary Instruction. Boston: Oliver Ditson & Co., (1860). [11317] Leather spine with green printed paper boards, oblong 7 3/7 x 7 1/4 inches, joints cracked and sometime filled in with glue or paste, with the boards now nearly detached, binding is clean. 1866 pencil signature on ffep. 216 clean pp., text is clean, block is tight. Fair. Hardcover. Pp. 5-37 are the instruction in music. The music for the songs is in four parts with round notes. Noted for the early printing of Dixie, here titled "Dixie's Land" and attributed to Dan Emmett. There are some differences in the song for what would soon become a rallying song for the Confederate South, for instance, the first line is "I wish I was in the land of child-hood," rather than "the land of cotton." The chorus has