Annotation:Jim Crow Polka
X:1 T:Jim Crow Polka M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Polka B:Gumbo Chaff - The Complete Preceptor for the Banjo (1851, p. 7) 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 d|cAAe|dAAf|gb!fermata!bc|daad| cAAe|dA!fermata!Af|g>ba>c|dd z!Fine!|| faa>f|gb !fermata!e z/e/|ef g>e|fa d>d| dddd|cB g>g|aa (3egf|dd z !D.C.!||
JIM CROW POLKA. American, Minstrel Tune (2/4 time). G Major (Briggs): D Major (Chaff). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB.
