Annotation:Rosa Lee
X:1 T:Rosa Lee M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Air B:Gumbo Chaff - The Complete Preceptor for the Banjo (1851, p. 8) N: A later edition of the earliest known banjo tutor, published in 1848. N:It was written by Elias Howe, whose pseudonym Gumbo Chaff N:is taken from Thomas Dartmouth Rice's 1834 blackface character. N:The 1851 edition was published in Boston by Oliver Ditson. N:In 1850 Howe sold some of his works to Ditson (this one among N:them) and agreed not to publish similar works for ten years. Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:G G2 G/B/d/d/|ee d2|ed BG|BA A2|G>B dd|ee d2|ed BG|BA G2|| gf ed|ed B2|ed c/B/A/G/|A<G E>B|gf ed|ed B>d|!fermata!ed BG|B>A A2|| G>Bdd|ee d2|edBG|BA A2|G>B dd |ed !fermata!g2|b>g d>B|B>A G2||
ROSA LEE. AKA - "Don't be Foolish Joe." AKA and see "Polka (29)." American, Song Air (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABC. An anonymous blackface minstrel song first published in 1847. It was a hit song for the Ethiopian Serenaders, Christy's Minstrels, and other troupes. Researcher Conor Ward finds a version of the tune as an untitled polka in the 1883 music manuscript of County Leitrim musician Stephen Grier (see "Polka (29)").
