Cleveland's March to the White House
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Cleveland's March to the White House", also known as "Cleveland Marching to the White House"<br> is an old-time march in G.<br> Grover Cleveland ran for the Presidency in the 1880's and was elected twice, in 1884 and 1892.<br> The tune probably dates to the campaign of 1884 after Cleveland had been Sheriff of Erie County,<br> New York, Mayor of Buffalo and Governor of New York.<br> The tune is fairly well known in the Blue Ridge Mountain area of western Virginia and<br> North Carolina. It was in the repertoire of fiddler Emmett Lundy (b. 1864), from Grayson County,<br> Virginia, who was recorded playing the tune in 1941 by Alan and Elizabeth Lomax for the<br> Library of Congress Archive of Folk Song. A version called "Piper's Gap" was played by banjo<br> player Rob Tate (who lived between Piper's Gap and Fancy Gap, Carroll County, Virginia) in 1979.<br> It was also in the repertoire of old-time banjo player Bertie Dickens (1902–1994)<br> of Ennice in Alleghany County, North Carolina. She played it in gEADE tuning, two-finger style.<br> This banjo tab, in gDGBD tuning, is from Janet Burton and Ken Torke, amended by me to fit the<br> fiddle version.<br> It was printed in Lamancusa's The Gettysburg Collection of Old-Time Fiddle Tunes (2021).<br> It was recorded by Roscoe Parish (Galax, Va.) on The Old-Time Way,<br> James Bryan & Carl Jones on Cricket's Lullaby (2011),<br> Rob Tate on Far in the Mountains, vols. 1 & 2 (2002) (Appears as "Piper's Gap"),<br> Bertie Dickens on The North Carolina Banjo Collection<br> (appears as "Cleveland's Marching to the White House") and<br> Hart & Blech on Build Me a Boat (appears as "Cleveland Marching to the White House").<br>
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