Gumbo Chaff

X:2
T:Gumbo Chaff
M:2/4
L:1/8
R:Reel
B:Gumbo Chaff - The Complete Preceptor for the Banjo (1851, p. 10)
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|GG GB/c/|de/d/ cA|AA A/B/c/d|ef/e/ dB|
dd g>d|de/d/ dB|GG G/A/B/c/|de/d/ d||
B/c/|cA AA/c/|BG GB/d/|e/g/f/e/ d/c/B/A/|BGG G/d/|
cA A/e/d/c/ |BG GB/d/|e/g/f/e/ d/c/B/A/|Ggg!D.C.!||

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