# Mining Camp Blues

## Classification

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

## Writer / Source

Often associated with Trixie Smith / early blues repertory; exact Scrips source unresolved

## Earliest Located Evidence

1920s blues recording/publication era

## Context

Likely pre-1931 source material; verify exact lyric source before public-facing claims.

## 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 Historical references below are research leads unless a specific comparison is documented.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://adp.library.ucsb.edu/
- https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-duration.html

## Local Scrips Evidence

- Current source text: src/_content/song-text/mining-camp-blues.txt
- Cleaned Scrips ChordPro source: Mining Camp Blues.chopro
- Existing site status: listed in master repertoire, unknown
- 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: 2
- Tuning/comment: Guitar - Standard

## Alternate Titles / Indexes

- Alternate titles: none documented in this pass
- Roud number: none located / not applicable

## Open Questions

- The export labels C but contains D/G/A shapes, capo 2 and a −2 transposition setting. Do not infer a concert key. Identify the actual writer/version rather than treating Trixie Smith, a performer association, as authorship.
- 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

Lyrics and chord cues supplied; key/transposition and source unresolved. 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.