@"Ninurta"#2 Thanks for the reply.
I hadn't considered the difference between the hill music and the flatland music. Mom's side of the family began in Virginia and spread out west and south, though the hills and deeper down south.
Like you, I can't remember where or when I heard this tune, and the chorus is the part that stuck the most for me. It became a PC kid's song and was sung in grade school when I was young, so maybe that's where I first heard it. However, the history of this one is pretty well known if you look at the earliest lyrics, and my relatives were slave holders all over the South.
I connected Old Dan Tucker in Georgia to my family tree, that part is certain, and that part of the family owned slaves and were in the Civil War, but try to find that history, and it is like it has been erased. I find it somewhat strange that I had this tune rolling around my head and remembered my distant relative Capt William Tucker. Once I started down that road, I found a bit more of my family history in an old blackface minstrel song. Lots of folk music is like that, consider the murder ballad I was working on awhile back. I firmly believe that the origin of that song was a true story about someone's family.
I have relatives, North and South, worthy of the Sons and Daughters of the Revolution, and can find the records of northern ones during the Civil War, but not my southern relatives. It seems that history has been suppressed, or erased from the books, with most of the South's records destroyed in the war apparently. So I have to find my family history in an old slave song from the early 1800s that became a minstrel show hit in 1843. Popular in the north and south and even in Europe now, I thought you'd have known something about this one.
ETA: I'm going to figure it out on my six string and create a version closer to the original. I like that version I posted at the beginning of this thread, its a very old timey sounding tune.
I hadn't considered the difference between the hill music and the flatland music. Mom's side of the family began in Virginia and spread out west and south, though the hills and deeper down south.
Like you, I can't remember where or when I heard this tune, and the chorus is the part that stuck the most for me. It became a PC kid's song and was sung in grade school when I was young, so maybe that's where I first heard it. However, the history of this one is pretty well known if you look at the earliest lyrics, and my relatives were slave holders all over the South.
I connected Old Dan Tucker in Georgia to my family tree, that part is certain, and that part of the family owned slaves and were in the Civil War, but try to find that history, and it is like it has been erased. I find it somewhat strange that I had this tune rolling around my head and remembered my distant relative Capt William Tucker. Once I started down that road, I found a bit more of my family history in an old blackface minstrel song. Lots of folk music is like that, consider the murder ballad I was working on awhile back. I firmly believe that the origin of that song was a true story about someone's family.
I have relatives, North and South, worthy of the Sons and Daughters of the Revolution, and can find the records of northern ones during the Civil War, but not my southern relatives. It seems that history has been suppressed, or erased from the books, with most of the South's records destroyed in the war apparently. So I have to find my family history in an old slave song from the early 1800s that became a minstrel show hit in 1843. Popular in the north and south and even in Europe now, I thought you'd have known something about this one.
ETA: I'm going to figure it out on my six string and create a version closer to the original. I like that version I posted at the beginning of this thread, its a very old timey sounding tune.
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