We'll Have a Little Dance Tonight Boys
We'll Have a Little Dance Tonight Boys: Annotations
X:1 T:We'll Have a Little Dance Tonight, Boys M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Minstrel tune 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 A>d|f>f f>f|f>ff>f|a>f d>f|e2 e>f| g>gg>g|g>g g>e|d>d e>e|f2|| zf/g/|a/a/a/f/ g>e|f a2 f|ge2e| f d2 f/g/|a/a/a/f/ g>e|f !fermata!a2 a|a/>a/a/>g/ cc|d2||
X:1 T:We will Have a little Dance to night M:2/4 L:1/8 S:Isaac Homan manuscript (mid-19th century, Long Island, NY) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:A e/f/e/c/ d/c/d/B/|c/d/e/f/ e(d/c/)|B/c/d/e/ d(c/B/)|c/e/a/g/ a(c/d/)| e/f/e/c/ d/c/d/B/|ceae|g>f e>d>c>B|Ac/e/ a|| M:6/8 L:1/8 EA c2c c2c|c2c c2c|e2c A2c|B4 c2| d2d d2d|d2d d2E|A2A B2B|cEF GAB|c2c c2c| c2c c2c|e>c A2c|B4 c2|d2d d2d|dd2 d3|| M:2/4 L:1/8 E2|A2(3A/A/A/ B2B|c3 z c/d/|e/f/e/c/ d>B|c z ez| Bz2 e>d|[E2c2]z Ac/d/|e/f/e/c/ dc/B/|c2 !fermata!d>e|f>e e>G|A2!D.C.!||
We'll Have a Little Dance Tonight Boys: Annotations