Boogerman

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Theme code Index	5:1 31 33 26L
Also known as	Boggerman Will Get You, Chasing the Devil Around the Stump, Chase the Devil Around the Stump, Whip the Devil Around the Stump
Composer/Core Source
Region	United States
Genre/Style	Old-Time
Meter/Rhythm	Reel (single/double)
Key/Tonic of	G
Accidental	1 sharp
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	2/4
History
Structure	AABB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Miles Krassen
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Appalachian Fiddle
Tune and/or Page number	p. 30
Year of publication/Date of MS	1973
Artist	Biography:Dirk Powell
Title of recording	Wandering Ramblers
Record label/Catalogue nr.	Marimac 9033
Year recorded
Media
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BOOGERMAN (WILL GET YOU). AKA and see ""Chasing/Chase the Devil around the Stump," "Whip the Devil Around the Stump." Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, "Most common in North Carolina," but known throughout the Appalachians (Krassen, 1973). G Major ('A' part) & E Minor or E Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. In repertoire of Samantha Bumgarner (Asheville, N.C.), J. Dedrick Harris (Eastern Tenn.), and Osey Helton (Western N.C.) {who knew it as "Whip the Devil Around the Stump"}. Helton may have learned the tune from influential fiddler J.D. Harris, who moved to Western N.C. from Eastern Tenn. in the 1920's, and who recorded the tune on Broadway A1964 (78 RPM) in 1925. Harris called the tune "Whip the Devil Around the Stump," and it was a variant of the "Boogerman" tune. Harris, who once played regularly with Bob Taylor when he was running for Governor of Tenn. in the late 1800's, also influenced other N.C. fiddlers of Helton's generation such as Manco Sneed, Bill Hensley, and Marcus Martin. Indeed, Manco Sneed played it as "Boogerman" although Fiddling' Bill Hensley called it "Old Boogerman" (Kerry Blech says that he was recorded about 1940 on instantaneous disk saying the title emphatically. The tune was also in the repertoire of fiddler Tommy Magness (1911-1972), born in north Georgia near the southeastern Tennessee border.

Printed source: Krassen (Appalachian Fiddle), 1973; p. 30.

Recorded source: Marimac 9033, Dirk Powell - "Wandering Ramblers."

X:1
T:Boogerman
M:2/4
L:1/8
K:G
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ge dB|1 AB GE:|AB G(B||:B)d e2|e3 B|[e2e2][e2g2]|
ed BA|Bd e2|e2 ef|ge dB|AB G[GB]:||