Seely Simpkins Jig

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". [Sacks and Sacks 170.] "Seely Simpkins Jig" was later published as a quickstep in "Fife Instructor", a manual by Emmett.

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* 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.


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