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Theme code Index	3535 1H524
Also known as	Jawbone, Old Joe Bone, Walk Jawbone (2)
Composer/Core Source
Region	United States
Genre/Style	Minstrel
Meter/Rhythm	Air/Lament/Listening Piece
Key/Tonic of	G
Accidental	1 sharp
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	2/4
History
Structure	One part
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X:1
T:Old Jaw Bone, De
M:2/4
L:1/8
R:Reel
B:Gumbo Chaff - The Complete Preceptor for the Banjo (1851, p. 10)
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
Bcdd|Bc d2|g>gdB|AB c2|
Bcdd|Bc d2|g2 d/e/d/c/ |BGG|
eB/B/ eB/B/|ef g2|B/c/c/B/ B/A/A/G/ |G2 Ez|
eB/B/ eB/B/|efga|gfe^d|e2 z2|
.B.d.A.B|(G/{F/A/}G/B/) D2|B/B/B/B/ AG|FA A2|
BdAB|G/F/G/B/ D2|E/G/F/G/ A/G/F/E/ DGGz||

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