Old Dan Tucker
Tune annotations
X:1 T:Old Dan Tucker M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Air B:Gumbo Chaff - The Complete Preceptor for the Banjo (1851, p. 7) 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:D (3A/B/c/|dd (3ddd|dddA|dd df|AA BA|dd(3ddd| dd dA|dd df|AABA||f f/f/ f2|edBd|e e/e/ e2 | AABA|f f/f/ f2|edBd|ed/e/ fe|d2||
X:1 T:Old Dan Tucker M:2/4 L:1/8 K:D (3A/B/c/|dddA|dd dA/A/|ddef|AABc|dddA dd dA/A/| ddef AAB::d|f>f f2|ed Bd|e>e ef|AA Bd| f>f a2|fd Bd|e>e ef|1 AA B:|2 Ac d2||