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YEAR OF (THE) JUBILO. AKA and see "Massa's Gone Away," “Old Master’s Runaway.” AKA – “Doodletown Fifer (2),” “Jublio,” “Jubiller,” “Kingdom Coming.” Old-Time, Breakdown; New England, Polka. USA. G Major (Brody): D Major (Messer, Miller & Perron, Phillips). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. An American blackface minstrel song whose words and tune were written by New England abolitionist Henry Clay Work in 1872, and tell of the effect of Lincoln's emancipation proclamation on a Southern plantation. The ancient Hebrews declared a "Jubilee Year" every half century in which all the slaves were freed. Work also composed such songs as the Civil War "Marching Through Georgia," "My Grandfather's Clock," and the music for "Wreck of the Old 97 (The)."

Source for notated version: Hollow Rock String Band (N.C.) [Brody].

Printed sources: Brody (Fiddler’s Fakebook), 1983; p. 294. Ford (Traditional Music in America), 1940; pp. 69 & 339. Messer (Anthology of Favorite Fiddle Tunes), 1980; No. 7, p. 8. Miller & Perron (101 Polkas), 1978; No. 58. Ostling, 1939; No. 13. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 2), 1995; p. 357.

Recorded sources: Flying Fish FF009, Red Clay Ramblers "Stolen Love." Folk Legacy FSI-74, Howard Bursen - "Cider in the Kitchen" (1980). Fretless 122, Ken Bonner "Old Time Fiddling 1976" (appears as "Jubiller"). Rounder 0024, "Hollow Rock String Band."