X:1
T:Happy are We Darkies so Gay
M:3/8
L:1/8
R:Minstrel tune
B:Gumbo Chaff - The Complete Preceptor for the Banjo (1851, p. 6)
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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