- Style
- Old-time
- Tradition
- American old-time
- Form
- Reel
- Key
- D
- Level
- 1
- Played on
- Fiddle
In the public domain. Source
Music
Learn the melody first. Each step adds to the one before it.
80bpm
Click any note to start from there
Chord chart
History
The tune grew out of "Angelina Baker," a minstrel song by Stephen Foster (1826 to 1864) about an enslaved woman sold away from the man who loved her. Fiddlers kept the name and a few of the words but changed the melody over time.
Uncle Eck Dunford cut an early version for Victor in 1928. The version most old-time players use today came into the revival from two Virginia and West Virginia fiddlers: J. W. "Babe" Spangler of Patrick County, through a County Records album, and Franklin George, who taught it to younger players before that album came out.
Angeline the Baker, her age is forty-three, Feed her candy by the peck but she won't marry me.
Angeline the baker, left me here alone, Left me here to weep a tear, and play on the old jawbone.