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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 did write a song in 1863 called "High Daddy," that begins: | '''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, | ''The sun's gone down to take a little sleep,''<br> | ||
I met High Daddy in the morning; | ''I met High Daddy in the morning; ''<br> | ||
The moon's come out to take a little | ''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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''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]. | ''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. | ''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> | ''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> | 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> | Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/h05.htm#Higdaint]<br> | ||
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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:
The sun's gone down to take a little sleep,
I met High Daddy in the morning;
The moon's come out to take a little
I met High Daddy and I won't go home any more, any more
Then wake up boys! for master's gone to bed,
I met High Daddy in the morning;
We'll have a spree, if we haven't got a red,
I met High Daddy and I won't go home any more, any more.
CHO:
Then darky, never die,
Black face and china eye;
Go down to the barnyard, boys,
The owl's on the roost.
High Daddy won't come nigh,
He's choked on chicken pie;
'Tis all 'O.K.' I say,
And right upon the goose.
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.
Source for notated version: Kenny Baker [Brody, Phillips].
Printed sources: Brody (Fiddler's Fakebook), 1983; p. 135. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), vol. 1, 1994; p. 112.
Recorded sources: 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."
See also listing at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]
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