Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on August 6th 2007 by The Merry Highlander.
This tune has been added to 8 tunebooks.
X: 1
T: Dandy Jim O' Caroline
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Gmaj
G/A/|: BG AG | EG GG/A/ | BG AG | Bd d/e/d/c/ |
BG AG | EG GA/B/ | ce d>c |1 BG GG/A/:|2BG Gd/e/ ||
|: gd ed | Bd dd/e/ | gd ed | BG Gd/e/ |
gd ed | Bd dA/B/ | ce d>c |1 BG Gd/e/:|2 BG G2|
Fun
If you've been looking for a fun little tune, than this is it. Can be a march or a fiddle tune.
# Posted on August 6th 2007 by The Merry Highlander
From Ceolas Fiddler
DANDY JIM FROM/OF CAROLINE [1]. AKA - "Dandy Jim." AKA and see "Chicken Foot and Sparrow-Grass" (Pa.), "Old Aunt Jenny." American, Reel or Breakdown. USA, southwestern Pa. G Major. Standard. AABB. Bayard (1981), Southern (1983) and others identify this tune as coming from the American minstrel tradition of the mid-19th century. Nathan Dan Emmett dates the stage tune to c. 1844 and says the words and perhaps the tune were composed by minstrel Dan Emmett. As with many minstrel tunes there is confusion as to whether Emmett wrote the music or simply adapted a found folk tune, but Bayard says the tune crops up "everywhere" in American music (including play-party songs) in many guises under a variety of titles. Bayard has also found the tune in the British Isles in Kerr's collection (Vol. 1, pg. 29 as "American Air") and in Roche's collection (Vol. 2, No. 297 as the second figure of the second tune in the quadrille "The Orange and the Green"). Source for notated version: Hiram Horner (Westmoreland/Fayette Counties, Pa., 1944) [Bayard]. Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 326, pgs. 291-192
Anyone have the Roche or Kerr version/s ?
# Posted on August 6th 2007 by The Merry Highlander
American Tunes
"As with many minstrel tunes there is confusion as to whether Emmett wrote the music or simply adapted a found folk tune..."
If he didnt adapt a folk tune, then he did a great job of writing a tune that sounds like it came from Scotland or Ireland.
# Posted on August 7th 2007 by The Merry Highlander