Serenaders' Quadrilles 2 - Goin' Ober de Mountain
Source:
G.W.Bennett MS.
Composer:
Dan Emmett
Region:
South West
Circa:
1849-1900
Year:
1860
Played by Teilhard Frost on "minstrel-style" fretless banjo.
"Goin Ober De Mountain" or "Gwine Ober De Mountain" was a minstrel show song written by American
blackface performer Dan Emmett. The first few bars appear to be based on an earlier English song "The
Spinning Wheel". This was a well-known melody and it appears in banjo instruction books of the era,
including "Briggs' Banjo Instructor" 1855.
Mid-19th century Boucher banjo
Themes
G.W. BENNETT MANUSCRIPT
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