Life by de Galley Fire, A

X:1
T:Life by de Galley Fire, A
T:Life on an Ocean Wave
M:6/8
L:1/8
R:Air
B:Gumbo Chaff - The Complete Preceptor for the Banjo (1851, p. 12)
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|DGG G2A|B-B2 G/A/|BBB c2B|A3 AAF|
D2F A2B|(c3 cd)d|e2d cBA|G3 zGF|
E2F G2A|(B3 BG)F|E2F G2A|(B3 B2)B|
BBB B2B|B3 B2B|BBB B2B|(c3 D2)D|
DGG G2A|(B3 B2) G/A/|BBB c2B|A3 AAF|
D2F A2B|(c3 cc)d|e2d cBA|G3-G2D|
D3-D2 D|D3-D2D|D2D D2D|G3 G2D|
D3-D2 D|D3D2D|D2D D2D|G6|G3z z2||

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