X: 044062
T: Settin' Upstairs Eatin' All the Vittles Up
O: Filby, V, 1944, B.
R: reel, hornpipe
B: DTFMTF: Sam Bayard's "Dance to the Fiddle, March to the Fife" p.62 #2 (and 2op 2 staffs of p. 45)
Z: 2026 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: D
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A,2 |\
"*"D3D D2D2 | "*"F>DF>F E>DB,2 | [E4A,4] [E2A,2][E2A,2] | "*"E>DE>E F>E D>F | "ds"A3"ds"A "ds"A2"ds"A2 |
A>F D>F A>A d>e | [fA]>d e>d d>A-A>G | "*"F2D2 D2 || A2 | d3d d2de | [fd]>d [fA]>d [eA]>d (3cBA |
"*"e3e e>ee | edcd [e2A2]d>e | "*"f>efe d>cd>B | A>GF>G A2d>e | "*"f>de>d d>AA>G | "*"F2D2 D2 |]
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%%text * means the measure start with a full-length A8 "drone" note.
%%text The first full measure of the B part has the only D "drone".
%%begintext align
%% Evidently a blackface-minstrel song: see Minstr, p.141, with words beginning "Sing, sing, darkies,
%% sing." However, there must have been words recommending the tune to fifers, since in Howe
%% DSV, p.12, we find a set entitled Come, Come, Soldiers, Come.
%%endtext