Boil Them Cabbage Down

An old-time fiddle tune, supplied here as the band’s two-line instrumental progression.

Status: Traditional repertoire · working songbook
Writer / source: Traditional American fiddle/banjo song
Rights: Band-supplied working version of older repertoire. No separate copyright clearance is asserted.
Related Scrips recording: No Scrips recording linked yet.

Source research

Documented lineage

Earliest evidence: Nineteenth/early twentieth-century folk tradition; exact first publication not located in this pass
Aliases / index: Bile Them Cabbage Down · Boil Em Cabbage Down
Working arrangement: Key A · Capo 0; Brushed up after Edom Second Saturday Art Walk. Instrumental form; no lyrics supplied in this version.

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Working instrumental chart

Working song sheet

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Brushed up after Edom Second Saturday Art Walk.

Instrumental form
[A] [D] [A] [E]
[A] [D] [A] [E] [A]

Archive note

The August 31 ChordPro supplies an instrumental version in A, replacing the earlier lyric sheet in G. The supplied progression is preserved without adding repeats or a melody transcription.

Chords

A · D · E