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|f_tune_title=Boatsman (2)
|f_tune_title=Boatsman (2)
|f_aka=Sailing Down the River on the O-hi-o, Ohio River, Boatman Dance.
|f_aka=Banjo Quadrilles: No.1 (The), Boatman's Dance (1), Dance Boatman Dance (1), Sailing Down the River on the O-hi-o, Ohio River,
|f_country=United States
|f_country=United States
|f_genre=Old-Time
|f_genre=Minstrel, Old-Time
|f_rhythm=Air/Lament/Listening Piece, Polka
|f_rhythm=Air/Lament/Listening Piece, Polka
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|f_accidental=3 sharps
|f_mode=Ionian (Major)
|f_mode=Ionian (Major)
|f_history=<b>USA</b>/Upland South
|f_history=USA(Upland South)
|f_structure=AABBCC
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|f_book_title=Appalachian Fiddle
|f_book_title=Appalachian Fiddle
|f_collector=Miles Krassen,  
|f_collector=Miles Krassen,
|f_year=1973
|f_year=1973
|f_page=p. 69
|f_page=p. 69
|f_theme_code_index=1H61H1H 2H1H65
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'''BOAT(S)MAN [2]'''. AKA and see "Sailing Down the River on the O-hi-o," "Ohio River," "Boatman Dance." Old-Time, Breakdown. USA; W.Va., Pa. A Major (Krassen, Phillips): D Major (Johnson): G Major (Spandaro). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBC: ABCC (Johnson): AABBCC (Phillips). The fiddle tune is derived from the minstrel piece credited to Dan Emmett called "De Boatmen Dance" or "Dance, Boatman, Dance;" the tune (words below), according to some accounts, was first heard in performance in Boston in 1843. Emmett published it in that year, advertising it as "An Original Banjo Melody." The tune appears in many American and even English songsters of the 19th and early 20th centuries; Scott (1926) prints it as "Sung by the Ethiopian Serenaders." Both Nathan and Cauthen (1990) assert the melody was in folk currency before the minstrel era, and that it made its way back to folk currency in the fiddle tradition after popularization by minstrels; this is probably true, for it was in print (as "Ohio River") in George P. Knauff's '''Virginia Reels''', volume IV (Baltimore, 1839) -- associated with Ohio River boatmen -- before it was played on the minstrel stage. See also "Boatman's Dance" for version of the tune in the morris dance tradition and "Little Rabbit" for a related old-time version.
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''Dance, Boatsman, dance. Dance, Boatsman, dance,''<br>
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''Stay out all night, 'til the broad daylight,''<br>
''Coming home with the girls in the morning.''<br>
''Hey, ho, the boatmen row,''<br>
''Sail down the river on the Ohio.''<br>
''Hey, ho, the Boatmen row,''<br>
''Sail down the river on the Ohio.''<br>
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''Well, I never saw a pretty girl in my life,''<br>
''But what she'd been some boatsman's wife.''<br>
''When the Boatsman blows his horn,''<br>
''Look out, men, your daughter's gone!''  (Johnson)<br>
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''The boatmen whistle and the boatmen sing,''<br>
''And the boatmen tell me some good thing.''<br>
''Way, oh, boatmen row,''<br>
''Sailing down the river on the O-hi-o.'' (Bayard)
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''Sources for notated versions'': Debbie McClatchey (Spandaro), George Strosnider (an elderly Greene County, Pa., when collected in the 1930's) [Bayard]; Melvin Wine [Silberberg]. Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 21, pgs. 25-26 (appears as "Sailing Down the River on the O-hi-o").
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''Printed sources:'' Johnson ('''The Kitchen Musician: Occasional Collection of Old-Timey Fiddle Tunes for Hammer Dulcimer, Fiddle, etc'''), No. 2, 1988 (revised 2003); p. 3. Krassen ('''Appalachian Fiddle'''), 1973; p. 69 (appears as "Boatsman"). Phillips ('''Traditional American Fiddle Tunes''', vol. 1), 1994; p. 32. Scott ('''English Song Book'''), 1926; p. 78. Silberberg ('''Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern'''), 2002; p. 14. Spandaro ('''10 Cents a Dance'''), 1980; p. 28.
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''Recorded souces:'' Folk-Legacy FSI-38, "Sara Grey with Ed Trickett" (1970). Kanawha Records 307, Frank George - "Traditional Music for Banjo, Fiddle, and Bagpipes." Rounder CD0262, Mike Seeger - "Fresh Oldtime String Band Music" (1988). Rounder CD 0382, Marvin Gaster - "Uncle Henry's Favorites." Rounder 1133, Ed Haley vol. 2 - "Grey Eagle".


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T:De Boatman Dance
Engraver Valerio M. Pelliccioni
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T:Boatsman [2]
T:Boatman 
T:Boatman's Dance [1]
N:From the playing of fiddler Melvin Wine (1909-2003, Copen, Braxton County,
N:central West Virginia) on a Berea College performance video.
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D:Marimac AHS2 (cass.), Melvin Wine - "Hannah at the Springhouse" (1989)
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