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'''HIGH DAD IN THE MORNING'''. Old-Time, Bluegrass; Breakdown. USA. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. The tune starts on an E minor chord, the relative minor. The tune supposedly has its origins in American black-face minstrelsy (see Hans Nathan's '''Dan Emmett and the Rise of Early Negro Minstrelsy'''). However, modern versions are sourced to bluegrass fiddler Kenny Baker, who learned the tune from a tape of Doug Dillard's father, Homer E. Dillard, a Missouri musician. Minstrel Dan Emmett (1815-1904) did write a song in 1863 called "High Daddy," that begins:
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''The sun's gone down to take a little sleep,''<br>
''I met High Daddy in the morning; ''<br>
''The moon's come out to take a little ''<br>
''I met High Daddy and I won't go home any more, any more''<Br>
''Then wake up boys! for master's gone to bed,''<br>
''I met High Daddy in the morning;''<br>
''We'll have a spree, if we haven't got a red,''<br>
''I met High Daddy and I won't go home any more, any more.''<br>
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CHO:<br>
''Then darky, never die,''<br>
''Black face and china eye;''<br>
''Go down to the barnyard, boys,''<br>
''The owl's on the roost.''<br>
''High Daddy won't come nigh,''<br>
''He's choked on chicken pie;''<br>
'''Tis all 'O.K.' I say,''<br>
''And right upon the goose.''<br>
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The sheet music was advertised in 1863 as "a favorite Plantation song, received nightly with shouts of laughter at Bryant's [Minstrels]. It bids fair to become as popular as Mr. Emmett's celebrated song 'Dixie's Land'." The song was for a 'walk-around' by the minstrel troupe, and the verses are in alternating call-and-response form, meant to be sung by the whole troupe. The 'walk-around' typically finished the minstrel show. Musically, it is no relation to the Diller/Baker tune. 
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''Source for notated version'': Kenny Baker [Brody, Phillips]. 
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''Printed sources'': Brody ('''Fiddler's Fakebook'''), 1983; p. 135. Phillips ('''Traditional American Fiddle Tunes'''), vol. 1, 1994; p. 112.
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''Recorded sources'': <font color=teal>County 719, Kenny Baker- "Portrait of a Bluegrass Fiddler" (1968). Rounder 0241, The Chicken Chokers - "Shoot Your Radio" (1987). Rounder 0442, John Hartford - "Hamilton Ironworks" (2001) Takoma D-1064, Norman Blake- "Directions."</font>
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See also listing at:<br>
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/h05.htm#Higdaint]<br>
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