Billy Barlow (2)
X:1 T:Billy Barlow [2] M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Jig (minstrel?) B:Elias Howe – Second Part of the Musician’s Companion (1843, p. 57) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G B|e3b2a|gfe ^def|gfe fe^d|efg B2B| e3 b2a|gfe ^def|gfe edc|BGE E2:| |:G/A/|BGE BGE|BGE E>FG|AFD AFD|AFD DEF| GGG A2A|B^c^d e2f|gfe edB|BGE E2:|
X:1
T:Billy Barlow [2]
M:6/8
L:1/8
R:Jig
B:Gumbo Chaff - The Complete Preceptor for the Banjo (1851, p. 14)
N: A later edition of the earliest known banjo tutor, published in 1848. It was written by Elias Howe, whose pseudonym Gumbo Chaff
N:is taken from Thomas Dartmouth Rice's 1834 blackface character. The 1851 edition was published in Boston by Oliver Ditson.
N:In 1850 Howe sold some of his works to Ditson (this one among them) and agreed not to publish similar works for ten years.
Z:AK/FIddler's Companion
K:G
B|e3-eba|gfe ^def|gee fe^d|efg B2B|
e3-eba|gfe ^def|gfe edcv|BGE E2:|
|:G/A/|BGE BGE|BGE E>FG|AFD AFD|AFD DEF|
GGG A2A|B^c^d e2f|gfe edc|BGE E2:|]