Angeline the Baker

An old-time fiddle tune played here as an instrumental, with repeated A and B parts.

Status: Traditional repertoire · working songbook
Writer / source: Stephen Foster; now widely circulated as an old-time fiddle tune
Rights: Older song or tune family. The source of this particular working version and its arrangement is still being reviewed.
Related Scrips recording: No Scrips recording linked yet.

Source research

Documented lineage

Earliest evidence: 1850s minstrel/song publication; nineteenth-century tune family
Aliases / index: Angelina Baker · Angelina the Baker
Working arrangement: Key C · Capo 0 · Banjo - Double-C (gCGCD) · 2/4 time

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Working instrumental chart

Working song sheet

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Banjo - Double-C (gCGCD)

Standard form AABB (start on A part)

Instrumental Break
A Part - melody
| [C] [G] | [C] |
| [C] [G] | [C] |
| [C] [G] | [C] [G] |
| [C] | [G] [C] |

Instrumental Break
B Part - melody
| [C] [G] | [C] [G] |
| [C] [G] | [C] |
| [C] [G] | [C] [G] |
| [C] [G] | [C] |

Optional tag / ending
Instrumental Break
| [C] [G] | [C] |

Archive note

The current sheet is instrumental. Its chord shapes and repeats are working band notes, not a melody transcription.

Chords

C · G