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GUMBO CHAFF. AKA - "Gombo Chaff." American, Song Tune (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Thomas Dartmouth Rice is credited with creating one of the earliest blackface characters, the riverboat-man Gumbo Chaff, in 1834 (it was also part of the repertoire of other early blackface performers, including Thomas D. Rice and George Washington Dixon. Gumbo Chaff became a stock character for a time at minstrel performances. The melody was included in one of the earliest surviving minstrel collections, an 1848 banjo tutor by Boston publisher Elias Howe, who took the pseudonym "Gumbo Chaff" for the book. In 1850 Howe sold the rights to the book to another Boston publisher, Oliver Ditson, on the condition that Howe not publish similar works for a period of ten years. Ditson re-issued the Chaff/Howe tutor in 1851.
There is some melodic similarity with the English tune "Bow Wow Wow", which "Gumbo Chaff" may have been based partly on.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Chaff (The Complete Preceptor for the Banjo), 1851; p. 7.
Recorded sources:
See also listing at:
Hear/see the song played on youtube.com [1]