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Boil Them Cabbage Down ($) Lesson - All Instruments

This folder contains tablature and standard musical notation for the song entitled "Boil Them Cabbage Down"  Fretmentor's original transcriptions of this piece include tablature for guitar, mandolin (standard notation for fiddle) and banjo. 

History:  The origin of the song Boil Them Cabbage Down is unclear and debatable. This classic American folk tune may have been passed down to the southern states from  African slaves. The tune has alternate references as "Bile Them Cabbage Down" or "Bile Dem Cabbage" or when referred to as a minstrel performance as "Boil Dat Cabbage Down", as documented in Oxford Music Online (See Ministrelsy American). This song is a popular instructional tune for beginners.

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