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Angeline the Baker
Old-Time; Song, Breakdown based on the title “Angelina Baker” by Stephen Foster. Virginia.
ARTIST: Compilation from Andrew Kuntz-Ceolas;
MP3: Listen to: "Angeline The Baker" by Uncle Eck Dunford
Listen to: Norman Edmonds
CATEGORY: Fiddle and Instrumental Tunes DATE: 1850;
RECORDING INFO: Bay 727, "Kenny Hall and the Sweet Mills String Band." Beet 7003, "Wretched Refuse." County 201, J.W. Spangler (Va.) - "The Old Virginia Fiddlers." Rounder 0400, "Pickin' Around the Cookstove." Spudchucker Productions, Bert Edwards (N.C.) - "Bert's Bombaree" (appears as "Rocky Road"). Rounder C-11565, Stuart Duncan - "Rounder Fiddle" (1990). Tennvale 002, Roaring Fork Ramblers- "Galax 73."Austen, Seth. Appalachian Fiddle Tunes for Finger Style Guitar, Kicking Mule KM 174, LP (1982), cut# 4 (Angelina Baker). Deseret String Band. Utah Trail, Okehdokee --, LP (197?), cut# 5. Edmonds, Norman. Train on the Island, Davis Unlimited DU 33002, LP (197?), cut# 13. George, Franklin/Frank. Traditional Music for Banjo, Fiddle & Bagpipes, County C-2703, Cas (1992), cut#A.04 (Angeline). George, Franklin/Frank. Traditional Music for Banjo, Fiddle and Bagpipes, Kanawha 307, LP (1967), cut#A.03. Hall, Kenny; and the Sweets Mill String Band. Kenny Hall and the Sweets Mill String Band, Bay TPH-727, LP (1973), cut#A.01. Kretzner, Leo; and Jay Leibovitz. Pigtown Fling, Green Linnet SIF 1019, LP (1979), cut#B.06. New Golden Ring. Five Days Singing - Vol. II, Folk Legacy FSI-042, LP (1971), cut# 2. Pickin' Around the Cookstove. Pickin' Around the Cookstove, Rounder 0040, LP (1975), cut# 7. Rain-Crow Countryside Band. Roustabout, Log Cabin 8005, LP (1977), cut#B.09b. Smith, Paul. Devil Eat the Groundhog, Rounder 0409, CD (1999), cut#19. Texas Jack & the Magic City Trio. Union Grove, The Hub of the Universe, Union Grove SS-4, LP (1970), cut# 14
OTHER NAMES: "Angeline," "Angelina Baker," "Rocky Road" (N.C.), "Coon Dog" (Va.), "Georgia Row," "Walk up Georgia Row," “Julie Ann Flan” “Einstein the Genius” ”Julie Ann Johnson (Tune)”
RELATED TO: Sailing On The Ocean; Little Nell; Dooley (verse)
SOURCES: J.W. Spangler (Virginia) [Reiner & Anick]; Wretched Refuse String Band (N.Y.C.) [Brody]; Stuart Duncan [Phillips]. Brody (Fiddler's Fakebook), 1983; pg. 22 (2 versions). Johnson (The Kitchen Musician's Occasional: Waltz, Air and Misc.), Vol. 1, 1991; pg. 2. Krassen (Appalachian Fiddle), 1973; pg. 26-27(Angeline). Kuntz (Ragged but Right), 1987; pg. 341-342. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), 1994; pg. 15. Reiner & Anick (Old-Time Fiddling Across America), 1989; pg. 88. Kuntz, Fiddler's Companion, http://www.ceolas.org/tunes/fc.
NOTES: "D Major. Standard or ADAE. AABB. This old time song and tune was derived from the title of a sentimental song by Stephen Foster, called "Angelina Baker," whose lyrics tell about a slave who is parted from her lover when sold. Foster's original song can be heard played by the Critton Hollow Stringband on their album "Sweet Home" (Yodel-Ay-Hee 002). The bluegrass song is is related only through the title. A similar tune, or an alternate title, is the Patrick County, Va., "Coon Dog." The 'revival' version commonly played today by old-time style musicians comes from fiddler J.W. 'Babe' Spangler (1882-1970), of Patrick County, Virginia." (Kuntz, Fiddler's Companion, http://www.ceolas.org/tunes/fc). See also the related "Little Betty Brown" and "Cousin Sally Brown."
Titon reports this about "Davy Dugger" AKA "Coon Dog": This common tune is known in northeast Kentucky and central Appalachia as "Coon Dog" "Old Coon Dog" also "Davy Dugger" and "Old Davy Dugger.' Related to the tune commonly called "Seneca Square Dance" and to " Engine on a Mogul" Clyde Davenport learned it from his father. [Old-time Kentucky fiddle tunes By Jeff Todd Titon]
Angelina Baker- Compilation of lyrics- Andrew Kuntz
Angeline the Baker, her age is twenty-three (or 'forty-three'),
Feed her candy by the peck but she won't marry me.
Tell how I took Angeline down to the county fair,
Her father chased me halfway home and told me to stay there.
Angeline the Baker, Angeline I say,
You caused me to weep, caused me to mourn, caused me to wear that old jawbone.
Angeline the Baker, She lived on the village green;
And the way that I love her, beats all to be seen.
Angeline in handsome, and Angeline is tall,
She broke her little ankle bone from dancing in the hall.
She won't do the baking because she is too stout,
She makes cookies by the peck, throws the coffee out.
Angeline the Baker, her age is forty-three,
Little children round her feet and a banjo on her.
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