Chicken Fer Supper: A Song History

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"Chicken Fer Supper" is an original mountain dulcimer song by Mandy Tyner, who sells it on her Banjo Lemonade website as a single tab in DAA tuning.[1] A post on her site, which offers tabs in DAD and DAA tunings, says she wrote it with her daughter, Amber, in the style of old-time songs.[2] Tyner teaches mountain dulcimer and clawhammer banjo, online and near her home in the North Georgia foothills, and posts free weekly lessons on her Banjo Lemonade YouTube channel.[3]

Printed cotton cloth with a repeating pattern of roosters and hens among leafy branches.

Cloth with Rooster and Hen Design, roller printed cotton, c. 1890. Shown for its subject; it has no connection to the song.

She includes it in Strummer's Delight: Beginning Dulcimer In DAA Tuning, a 30-page book of beginner arrangements for strumming in DAA tuning, published by Back Porch Publishing.[4] The sources consulted here record no other performers of it.[1][4]

Our book that contains the song "Chicken Fer Supper"

Sources

  1. Banjo Lemonade: "Chicken Fer Supper Mountain Dulcimer DAA (Original Song)".
  2. Banjo Lemonade: "Chicken Fer Supper Tabs in DAD and DAA" (site search listing).
  3. DulcimerDownloads: "Mandy Tyner".
  4. Mandy Tyner: "Strummer's Delight: Beginning Dulcimer In DAA Tuning".
  5. Image: Cloth with Rooster and Hen Design, roller printed cotton, c. 1890. The Cleveland Museum of Art.

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