My Long Tail Blue

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X:1 T:My Long Tail Blue M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Minstrel tune B:Elias Howe – Second Part of the Musician’s Companion (1843, p. 56) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:D d/e/|{de}fd{ef}ge|{de}fd{ef}ge|fd ee|A^G/A/ B/c/d/e/|{de}fd{ef}ge|{de}fd{ef}ge|AA/c/ B/d/c/e/|d2 z2:| |:af/g/ aa|e3 z|af/g/ aa|d3z|{de}fd {ef}ge|{de}fd {ef}g[Ae]|AA/c/ B/d/c/e/|d2 z2:|

X:1 T:My Long Tail Blue 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. N:It was written by Elias Howe, whose pseudonym Gumbo Chaff N:is taken from Thomas Dartmouth Rice's 1834 blackface character. N: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) N:and agreed not to publish similar works for ten years. Z:AK/FIddler's Companion K:D d/e/|fdge|fdge|fd ee|A^G/A/ B/c/d/e/|fdge|fdge|AA/c/ B/d/c/e/|d2:| |:af/g/ aa|e3z|af/g/ aa|d3z|fdge|fdge|AA/c/ B/d/c/e/|d2:|]

X:33 T:My Long Tailed Blue. Roose.0747 M:2/4 L:1/8 Q:1/4=100 B:J.Roose MS, Manchester 1850 Z:Village Music Project, Steve Mansfield 2019 K:G (d/e/) | fdge | fdge | fdee | A3 (d/e/) |\ fdge | fd gA | AABc | d3 || F/G/ | A(F/G/) AA | E3 F/G/ | AF/G/ AA | D3 (d/e/) |\ fdge | fdgA | AABc | d3 |]