Clear the Kitchen

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X:1 T:Clare de Kitchen M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Minstrel tune B:Elias Howe – Second Part of the Musician’s Companion (1843, p. 57) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G D/G/|BB BG/B/|dd dB/d/|gg a/g/f/g/|ba a>d| b>g a>f|(gd) (Bd)|b>g a>f|(gd) (Bd)| c>B Ac|Ac Ac|d>c Bd|Bd Bd| e>g f/>g/a/>f/|g/>a/b/>a/ g/>f/e/>d/|e/>f/g/>e/ f/>g/a/>f/|gbg:|

X:1 T:Clare de Kitchen M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Air B:Gumbo Chaff - The Complete Preceptor for the Banjo (1851, p. 13) 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 D/G/|BB BG/B/|dd dB/d/|gg a/g/f/g/|ba a>d| b>g a>f|gd Bd|b>ga>f|gd Bd| c>B Ac|AcAc|d>c Bd|BdBd| e>g f/>g/a/>f/|g/>a/b/>a/ g/>f/e/>d/|e/>f/g/>e/ f/>g/a/>f/|gbg||

X:2 T:Clear the Kitchen M:2/4 L:1/8 K:D D/E/|FF FD/F/|AA A>A|dd dc/d/|ee e>A| f>d ec|dA FA|f>d e>c|dA FA|G>F EG| EG EG|A>G FA|FA FA|Bd c/d/e/c/|ddd||