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X:1 T:Gone to Alabama M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Air B:Gumbo Chaff - The Complete Preceptor for the Banjo (1851, p. 14) 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:D a/g/|fdeA|ddd c/d/|eee d/e/|f a2 a/g/| fdeA|ddd c/d/|eea>g|fd:| |:d/e/|=f2 ed|a!fermata!A2 d/e/|=f2 ed|a !Fermata!A2 d/e/| =f>f ed|a !fermata!A2 a/a/|a2 aa|a>g fd:|]