Life on the Ocean Wave
X:1 T:Life on the Ocean Wave, A M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Country Dance Tune B:Kerr - Merry Melodies vol. 1 (c. 1875, No. 2, p. 28) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:D A|ABc d2e|f3-fde|fef g2f|e3-e2c| A2c e2f|g3-ffg|b2a gfe|d3-d2:|| d/c/|B2c d2e|f3-fdc|B2c d2 e|f3-f2f| fff fff|fff fff|g3-(g/f/e/d/c/B/)|Ace a2!D.C.!||
X:2
T:Life on the Ocean Wave
T:First Two Ladies Cross Over
M:6/8
L:1/8
C:Epes Sargent & Henry Russell 1838
K:G
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X:1
T:Life by de Galley Fire, A
T:Life on an Ocean Wave
M:6/8
L:1/8
R:Air
B:Gumbo Chaff - The Complete Preceptor for the Banjo (1851, p. 12)
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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D2F A2B|(c3 cd)d|e2d cBA|G3 zGF|
E2F G2A|(B3 BG)F|E2F G2A|(B3 B2)B|
BBB B2B|B3 B2B|BBB B2B|(c3 D2)D|
DGG G2A|(B3 B2) G/A/|BBB c2B|A3 AAF|
D2F A2B|(c3 cc)d|e2d cBA|G3-G2D|
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X:1
T:Life on the Ocean Wave
T:Ocean Waves
M:6/8
L:1/8
S:Shaw - Cowboy Dances (1943)
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:D
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