- 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.
Adds old-time hammer-ons, slides, triplets and an open D drone under the long B.
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.