Coal Black Rose

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Theme code Index	3J4H3H2H 3H4H5H1H
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Composer/Core Source
Region	United States
Genre/Style	Minstrel
Meter/Rhythm	Air/Lament/Listening Piece
Key/Tonic of	C
Accidental	NONE
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	2/4
History
Structure	AABB
Editor/Compiler	Elias Howe
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Complete Preceptor for the Accordeon
Tune and/or Page number	p. 18
Year of publication/Date of MS	1843
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COAL BLACK ROSE. American, Minstrel Air (2/4 time). G Major (Kerr): C Major (Howe). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The song is one of the earliest known blackface minstrel songs, dating from 1820, when it was popularized on stage by George Washington Dixon, followed by Thomas Blakeley and others. A farce, it tells of the fight between Cuffee and Sambo over a woman.

Printed sources: Howe (Complete Preceptor for the Accordeon), 1843; p. 18. Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 3; No. 294, p. 43.

X:1
T:Coal Black Rose
M:2/4
L:1/8
S:Howe - Complete Preceptor for the Accordeon (1843)
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:C
egfa | eg d2 | egfa | gB c2 | 
egfa | eg d2 | egfa | gB c2 :|
|: e2f2 | ed c2 | e/e/e/e/ fa | gB c2 | 
e2f2 | ed c2 | e/e/e/e/ fa | gB c2 :||

X:2
T:Coal Black Rose
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.  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
Bdce|Bd A2|Bdce|dF G2:|
B2c2| BA G2|B/B/B/B/ ce|dF G2|
B2c2|BA G2 |B/B/B/B/ ce dF G2||