Way Down South

Way Down South: Annotations

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X:1
T:Way Down South
M:2/4
L:1/8
R:Song Air
B:Gumbo Chaff - The Complete Preceptor for the Banjo (1851, p. 4)
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
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Way Down South: Annotations