Fiddle Tune a Day - Day 7 - Angeline the Baker

Angeline the Baker is possibly the seminal old-time fiddle tune. The only thing we were missing in this recording of one of the Jams from the Colorado Old Time Fiddler's Contest was my friend Bob Zuellig singing it.

Featured in this tune are:

Vi Wickam (me) - Fiddle

Warry Means - Banjo

Dave - Fiddle

Riley - Fiddle

John Lardinois - Guitar

Steve Barger - Guitar

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Angeline the Baker Lyrics:

1. Angeline the baker lives in our village green,
The way I always loved her beats all you ever seen.

CHORUS:
Angeline the baker, her age is forty-three,
I bought her candy by the peck, and she won't marry me.

2. Her father is the miller, they call him Uncle Sam.
I never will forget her, unless I take a dram. CHORUS.

3. Angeline is handsome, Angeline is tall,
They say she sprained her ankle a-dancing at the ball. CHORUS.

4. She can't do hard work because she is not stout,
She bakes her biscuits every day, and pours the coffee out. CHORUS.

5. I'll never marry no other girl, no matter where I go.
I said I'd marry Angeline just twenty years ago. CHORUS.

6. The last time I saw her was at the county fair.
Her father run me almost home and told me to stay there. CHORUS.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Tune (folk Music)
• Fiddle
• fiddle tune a day
• vi the fiddler
• vi wickam
• john lardinois
• warry means
• Banjo
• oldtime
• old time

[teambronte]

excellent, thanks for adding all that info- folk music keeps the memory and spirit of all our folks with us. This sounds a little like the irish jig, Mountain Dew (you would be great at that one too!)

[vithefiddler]

@teambronte I'm not familiar with the Irish Jig by that name, but there is a bluegrass tune by that name that I do know...

[capitalismforme]

@vithefiddler I think he meant that he'd like to do an Irish Jib, which is similar to a clog step, to the bluegrass song called Mountain Dew. I'll interpret :)

[vithefiddler]

@capitalismforme I can definitely record the Bluegrass song, Mountain Dew at some point this year with some bluegrassers, and anyone who wants to dance a jig is welcome to. :)

[capitalismforme]

Vi, haha touché.

[capitalismforme]

@capitalismforme *Irish JIG* rather than jib. Gotta love the spell correction.

[olmmbill]

Very cool!

[teambronte]

probably very similar Vi, a bucket o' the mountain dew