Tombigbee Waltz | solo octave mandolin | tablature

Tablature and sheet music available here: sowl.co/s/CdjdV
Here's a solo octave mandolin version of the traditional American waltz Tombigbee. I decided to play this one cross-tuned (GDGD) for a more strumming and droning capabilities.
From tunesearch.org:
Tombigbee Waltz, also known as Gum Tree Canoe and Tom Big Bee River. The melody is named for the Tombigbee River which flows from northeastern Mississippi into the Alabama River. Tombigbee is rumored to mean ‘coffinmaker’ in one of the Native American languages. A song version, “Tom Big Bee River,” attributed to S.S. Steele, was printed in Heart Songs - Melodies of Days Gone By, published in 1909 by World Syndicate Publishing Company (Cleveland; New York), although it is much older. From the dialect employed in the lyrics, minstrel origins are indicated. S.S. Steele and A.F. Winnemore (1847) are credited with words and music in Garson’s Laura Ingles Wilder Songbook.
Lyrics:
On Tom-big-be River so bright I was born,
In a hut made of husks ob de tall yaller corn,
And dar I fust meet mid my Jula so true,
An I row'd her about In my gum-tree canoe.
Chorus:
Singing row away, row, O'er the waters so blue,
Like feathers we'll float in my gum-tree canoe.
All de day in de flied de soft cotton I hoe,
I tink ob my Jula an sing as I go;
Oh, I catch her a bird, wid a wing ob true blue,
An at night sail her 'round in my gum-tree canoe.
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[@colinbotts]

Tablature and sheet music available here: ua-cam.com/video/57SMwih-5uw/v-deo.html

[@johndavy6056]

Thanks Colin, As usual well played and well presented. It's great to hear you playing your octive mandolin. JD

[@colinbotts]

Thanks so much, glad you enjoyed this one. Yeah, I don't play that Weber O.M. nearly enough these days. I think it's mostly out of laziness. The mandolin and mandola are so much less physically demanding to play, not to mention are way easier to cart around.

[@nalunoa]

Legit! Well done, as usual. And always always great to hear that beautiful OM!

[@colinbotts]

Thanks for coming back and listening to my upload. Glad you're enjoying them!

[@Gently469]

Sounds great Colin!

[@colinbotts]

🙏 thanks!

[@robinmcleodingram7227]

Love this!

[@colinbotts]

Thanks so much, glad to hear that!

[@k_kelsey]

No tap dancing while you play like Hartford? Good tune.

[@colinbotts]

Oh man, wasn't he a gem? RIP John.
No, I wouldn't even dare to try. Thanks so much for listening! Cheers!