Annotation:Over the Mountains (2)

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OVER THE MOUNTAINS [2]. AKA - "I'm gwine ober de mountains." American, Reel (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. A song for the black-face minstrel stage composed in 1843 by entertainer Dan Emmett (1813-1904), one of the original Virginia Minstrels, an early troupe. Emmett's dialect lyric begins:

Away down in de Kentuck brake
De darkey lib, dey call him jake,
he pick upon de banmjo string,
Dis am de song dat he would sing.

Chorus:
Ree-ro my true lub,
O come along my darlin,
So fare you well, my Dinah gal,
I'm gwine ober de mountains.

Come my lub an go wid me,
I'm gwine away to Tennessee;
A hoss an cart dhall pull you roun',
Walk up hill an foot it down.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Gumbo Chaff (The Complete Preceptor for the Banjo), 1851; p. 10.

Recorded sources: Car Tunes, Bob Carlin - "The Boys from North Carolina" (2003).

See also listing at:
Hear/see the tune played by Tim Twiss on fretless banjo on youtube.com [1]

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