- Style
- Old-time
- Tradition
- American fiddle, East and Midwest
- Form
- Reel
- Key
- A
- Level
- 3
- Played on
- Fiddle and Mandolin
In the public domain. Source
Music
100bpm
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Chord chart
History
The first printing under this name is in Ryan's Mammoth Collection of 1883, but the melody is older: Isaac Homan, a shipbuilder and fiddler from Bellport, Long Island, wrote a version into his manuscript in the mid 1800s. R.P. Christeson found it in most of the older American collections.
Samuel Bayard thought it came from the blackface minstrel stage, built from British Isles strains. Alan Jabbour linked its family to the reel "The Mason's Apron." It goes by many other names, among them "Hop Up Susan," "Up Jumped Susie" and "Hell on the Wabash."