Old Joe Clark

An old-time fiddle-and-banjo standard, represented here by an instrumental working chart.

Status: Traditional repertoire · working songbook
Writer / source: Traditional Appalachian song/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: Nineteenth/early twentieth-century traditional circulation
Aliases / index: No alternate title or index recorded.
Working arrangement: Key G · Capo 2 · 4/4 time · 126 BPM (working); The supplied chart uses G shapes with capo 2 and states that it sounds in A.

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Working instrumental chart

Working song sheet

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{capo: 2} ; song sounds in A (banjo capo 2)

Chorus - Play 5 times total (once at start, then after each verse)
[G] | [C] [G] | [G] | [D] | [G] | [C] [G] | [G] [D] [G] |

Verse - Play 4 times
[G] | [C] [G] | [C] [G] | [D] [G] |

Archive note

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

Chords

G · C · D