Piano and voice - Digital Download SKU: LV.18256 Composed by Petroleana. Satire, Petroleum industry, Wealth, Deceit. Lester S. Levy Collection. 4 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.18256). Famous Oil Firms. A Serio-Comic Ballad, During the singing of which, people are requested not to laugh. Words Bored For Near Oil Creek, By E. Pluribus Oilum. Music Composed and Well Greased so as to Run Smoothly, By Petroleana. Published 1865 by Horace Waters, No.481 Broadway in New York. Composition of strophic with chorus with piano and voice instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Satire, Petroleum industry, Wealth, Deceit. First line reads There's Ketchum & Cheatum, and Lure'em & Beatum, and Swindle um all in a row.. About The Lester S. Levy CollectionThe Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music consists of over 29,000 pieces of American popular music. Donated to Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries, the collection's strength is its thorough documentation of nineteenth-century American through popular music. This sheet music has been provided by Project Gado, a San Francisco Bay Area startup whose mission is to digitize and share the world's visual history.WARNING: These titles are provided as historical documents. Language and concepts within reflect the opinions and values of the time and may be offensive to some.
