Jim Crack Corn

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X:1 T:Jim Crack Corn M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Minstrel Tune B:Gumbo Chaff - The Complete Preceptor for the Banjo (1851, p. 5) 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 G|BB GG|FAAA|AAFA|AGGG|BB G/G/G|FAAA|AAFA|BGG|| BB G>G |F A2z|AA F>F|G B2z|BB B>B|c !fermata!e2e|d<d c>F|G2 z||

X:1 T:Jim Crack Corn M:2/4 L:1/8 B:Thomas F. Briggs - "Briggs' Banjo Instructor" (1855, p. 26) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:G G|BB/d/ GB/d/|FA/d/ AA/d/|A/F/A/d/ AF|AGG D|BB/d/ GB/d/|FA/d/ AA|A/F/A/d/ AF|BG Gz|| BB/d/ G/>B/ (3d/B/G/|F A2 z|AA/d/ F/>A/ (3d/A/F/|GB zz |[G,DGB][G,DGB] [G,DGB][G,DGB]|c e2 e|dd/d/ cF|G2 z||