Some Pumkins - March & Two Step

A nifty ragtime-era tune written in about 1908 by Ed. Kuhn. I learned this mostly from a cassette of the Etcetera String Band.
The Mississippi State University Library offers the sheet music for download: http://digital.library.msstate.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/SheetMusic&...

Chords:

[intro]
C - - - D7 - G7 -

[first part]
C - - - - - - -
C - - - D7 - G7 -
C - - - - - - -
Cdim - - - G7 - C -

[second part]
F - - - C - - -
G7 - - - C - - -
F - - - C - - -
G7 - - - C - - -

[repeat first part]

[Trio]
F - - - C7 - - -
C7 - - - F - C7 -
F - - - Gm - - -
G7 - - - C7 - - -
F - - - C7 - - -
C7 - Bb - A7 - - -
D7 - - - G7 - - -
C7 - - - F - - -

[transition]
C - - - - - C7 -

[repeat trio]

Category:

Music

Tags:

• ukulele
• martin
• 3K
• ragtime
• rag
• some
• pumkins

[Numpad9]

What Uke did you use?

[heftone]

This is an old Martin style 3K ukulele

[Comans]

I'm one of the Digital Projects staff at the Mississippi State Libraries. So awesome to see some of the work of my colleagues come to life!  I hope lots of musicians and historians can use that sheet music collection to better the craft. Very nicely done, sir!

[heftone]

Thanks so much for providing the excellent online resource. There are many forgotten treasures there ready for rediscovery. It's clear a huge amount of labor and love went into that web site.

[rlwalker2]

Really neat tune. So old it's new. lol

Did you develop a chord chart to go with that ... or just go note by note and see what the melody is? If you have a chord chart could you post it?

[heftone]

I didn't write anything down, but there was a strong guitar part on the cassette I learned the tune from, so I guess I had the chords in my head. I just posted some chords in the "more info" section.

[oldcremona]

That ol' uke really speaks on this one.

[KawhackitaRag]

I must second that... as a ragtime pianist, I get a lot of music from this website you have helped with! A great resource! Thank you!

[rlwalker2]

Wow - thank you so much. I definitely saved those. Notation plus chords. I see a fake sheet in my future with some fun playing.

[FranSpain]

MARVELLOUS!!!