My Pretty Yaller Gal
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X:1 T:My Pretty Yaller Gal M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Air B:Gumbo Chaff - The Complete Preceptor for the Banjo (1851, p. 11) 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|GA dg|ge c>e|dd BG|A3 D/D/|GB dg|ge ce|df/e/ d/c/B/A/ |G2z|| c|dc cF/A/ |cB Bz/G/|A/>B/c/>d/ e/>B/c/>G/|(G2 FD)|GB dg|g>e ce|df/>e/ d/>c/c/>G/|G2 z!d.c.!||