# Angeline the Baker

## Classification

- Queue shelf: light
- Current website category: public-domain
- Research category: public-domain
- Rights status: traditional-variant-awaiting-review
- Confidence: working-variant-review

## Writer / Source

Stephen Foster; now widely circulated as an old-time fiddle tune

## Earliest Located Evidence

1850s minstrel/song publication; nineteenth-century tune family

## Context

Underlying Foster-era material predates modern copyright; Scrips wording/arrangement should be treated as a band arrangement.

## Rights Assessment

Older song or tune family. The source of this particular working version and its arrangement is still being reviewed. These working notes do not establish clearance of the exact lyric, tune variant, or arrangement. Historical references below are research leads unless a specific comparison is documented.

## Source Links

- https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200001139/
- https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-duration.html

## Local Scrips Evidence

- Current source text: src/_content/song-text/angeline-the-baker.txt
- Cleaned Scrips ChordPro source: Angeline the Baker.chopro
- Existing site status: listed in master repertoire, traditional/public domain or hymn/fiddle tune
- Existing site notes: lyric/chord sheet present; listed in master list; appears in setlist

## Scrips Arrangement Notes

The text/chords supplied here follow the Scrips working source where available. Differences from older printed or collected versions should be treated as arrangement choices unless separately documented.

## Chords / Key / Tuning

- Key: C
- Capo: 0
- Tuning/comment: not documented

## Alternate Titles / Indexes

- Alternate titles: Angelina Baker, Angelina the Baker
- Roud number: none located / not applicable

## Open Questions

- Double-C tuning is now identified correctly. Confirm the AABB form and the relationship to Foster’s song versus the band’s fiddle-tune variant. The file is an accompaniment chart, not melody notation.
- Identify the exact text/tune variant and arrangement used by the band before treating this working sheet as publication-cleared.

## Website review — 2026-08-30

Instrumental: lyrics not applicable to the supplied arrangement; accompaniment chart supplied. The text and chord export were inspected for usable content; file existence is not a completed-song-sheet check. Final performance accuracy remains for the band to approve.