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Theme code Index	1343 1342
Also known as
Composer/Core Source
Region	United States
Genre/Style	Minstrel
Meter/Rhythm	Air/Lament/Listening Piece, Reel (single/double)
Key/Tonic of	G
Accidental	1 sharp
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	2/4
History
Structure	AB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Gumbo Chaff
Book/Manuscript title	Book:The Complete Preceptor for the Banjo
Tune and/or Page number	p. 10
Year of publication/Date of MS	1851
Artist
Title of recording
Record label/Catalogue nr.
Year recorded
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Tune annotations

X:1
T:Over the Mountains [2]
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
D|G>ABB|cd B2 |G/F/G/A/ BB|c/A/A/A/ A2|
G>ABB|cd B2|G/F/G/A/ BB|c/A/A/A/ A2|
AB/A/ GE|FA d2|AB/A/ GE |EDD2|AB/A/ GE|
FA d2|fd/d/ ec|d3||d2 ed|gd (b2|
b)a da/a/|ag B2|d/d/d/d/ gd b2|bc'/b/ af|g3||


X:1
T:Over the Mountain
S:James Brown, Basingstoke, Hampshire, September 1906
B:Gardiner MS no. H152 (VWML)
N:tempo notional
L:1/8
Q:1/4=120
M:4/4
K:F
A3/2B/ AG GF F2 | A3/2B/ AF A2 c2 |
w:Fare thee well, my own true love Fare thee well my dar-ling
A3/2B/ AG GF FG | Ac B/B/ GF2 F
w:Fare thee well, my own true love I'm go-ing o-ver the moun-tain.
F | G3/2A/ BA GF F2 | G3/2G/ AA dc c
w:Now my poor girl be-gins to cry With my coat I wiped her eye
c | A3/2B/ AG GF/F/ FA |cc BA/G/ F2 F2 |]
w:And all the peo-ple said she should die If I went o-ver the moun-tain.

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