Old Dan Tucker



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X:1 T:Old Dan Tucker M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Air B:Gumbo Chaff - The Complete Preceptor for the Banjo (1851, p. 7) 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 (3A/B/c/|dd (3ddd|dddA|dd df|AA BA|dd(3ddd| dd dA|dd df|AABA||f f/f/ f2|edBd|e e/e/ e2 | AABA|f f/f/ f2|edBd|ed/e/ fe|d2||  X:775 T:Dan Tucker. Roose.0775, Ole T:Dan Tucker. Roose.0775 T:Dan Tucker. Roose.0775, Old M:2/4 L:1/8 Q:1/4=120 N: A Minstrel song the tune is similar to this N:https://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/collection/020/099 B:J.Roose MS, Manchester, 1850 Q:"Allegretto" Z:Village Music Project. Rob Lands 2019 K:G GG GG | GG GG | GG GG | FDE2 |\ GG GG | GG GG | GG GG | GD E>G | BB/B/ !>!B2 | AG EG | AA/A/ !>!A2 | DD EG |\ BB/B/ !>!B2 | AG EG | AA/A/ A2 | DD EG |]   X:112 T:Old Dan Tucker B:American Veteran Fifer (1902, No. 112) M:2/4 L:1/8 Q:1/8=180 K:D t=8 ((3A/B/c/) | dddA | dd dA/A/ | ddef | AABc | dddA | dd dA/A/ | ddef | AA B:| f>f a2 | fd Bd | e>e ef |[1AA B :|[2 Ac d2 | 
 * d | f>f f2 | ed Bd | e>e ef | AA Bd |

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