Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on November 18th 2004 by Tommy McCarty.
This tune has been added to 32 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Coleman's March
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Dmaj
F4|G3F/G/|AA/B/ A/F/D|E3F/G/|
Adc2|BB/A/ F/E/D|EE/F/ G/F/E|1 D2 A/B/A/G/:|2 D2 D/F/A/c/||
d4|c4|BB/c/ d/c/B|A3F/G/|
Adc2|BB/A/ F/E/D|EE/F/ G/F/E|1 D2 D/F/A/c/:|2 D2 A/B/A/G/||
Coleman's March
As you may have guessed, this is not a polka but a 2/4 march. I learned it off a friend of mine but can't recall where said she had it from. A pretty little tune, it can also be played slower so:
F8|G6FG|A2AB AFD2|E6FG|
A2d2c4|B2BA FED2|E2EF GFE2|1 D4 ABAG:|2 D4 DFAc||
d8|c8|B2Bc dcB2|A6FG|
A2d2c4|B2BA FED2|E2EF GFE2|1 D4 DFAc:|2 D4 ABAG||
# Posted on November 18th 2004 by Tommy McCarty
Coleman's March
This lovely march is recorded by the great fiddler, Pete Sutherland, on Eight miles from home", recorded in 1982.
"Devil in the Strawstack" is also on that fine recoding--a fabulous gritty G Dorian old-time Appalachian tune".
# Posted on November 21st 2004 by bobbi
Coleman's March
I would like some history on this neat little tune. Reply to smiskoe@aol.com
# Posted on May 9th 2005 by Sylvia Miskoe
For Sylvia
HI, Sylvia. David Kaynor introduced this lovely tune to us. Legend has it that Coleman played it on his guitar as he was sitting on his coffin while being carted away to the noose in the 1880s, having been wrongfully accused by his live-in sister-in-law of murdering his wife.
We've been trading this tune in our local sessions since we learned it. Everybody likes it - especially since it has a story!
# Posted on May 30th 2008 by vonnieestes