Serenaders' Quadrilles 4 - Boatman Dance
Source:
G.W.Bennett MS.
Composer:
Dan Emmett? Trad.
Region:
South West
Circa:
1849-1900
Year:
1860
Played by Teilhard Frost on fretless banjo
Part of a set of American tunes arranged as a quadrille. My gut feeling about this is that he wrote the key signature wrong and that it should have a C# in it as well. I've left it as written, though.
The Boatman Dance was a hugely popular minstrel show song, credited to Dan Emmett, 1843. It has never
completely disappeared out of the fiddle/banjo repertoire since then. It is presented here as a four part tune.
The first three parts match the usual lyrics of the song. (There are several more verses)
Maid of Midland Circa 1880
Bocher banjo - 1860s
