Seely Simpkins Jig
"Seely Simpkins Jig" is a song by American songwriter Dan Emmett. Emmett named the song for Seeley Simpkins, a resident of Knox County, Ohio, well known for his fiddle playing and whistling. Simpkins' property neighbored that of Thomas Snowden, a man whom Howard L. and Judith Sacks credit with helping Emmett write the song "Dixie".[1] "Seely Simpkins Jig" was later published as a quickstep in Fife Instructor, a manual by Emmett.
Notes
[edit]- ^ Sacks and Sacks 170.
References
[edit]- Sacks, Howard L, and Sacks, Judith (1993). Way up North in Dixie: A Black Family's Claim to the Confederate Anthem. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.