Coal Black Rose
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
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