"New Broom", also known as "Democrats a-Rising" is an American reel in G Major. The parts are played AB (Silberberg) or AA'BB' (Devil's Box, Phillips). Charles Wolfe (1991) thinks the title might be associated with an old African-American banjo song, perhaps of minstrel origins, called "Sweep dat Kittle Wid a Bran' New Broom". Kentucky fiddler Jim Bowles (1903 -1993) called the tune "Democrats a-Rising", associating the title "New Broom" with the political analogy of a new administration 'sweeping' out the old. After Republicans Coolidge, Harding and, especially, Hoover it seemed apparent that the next president would be a Democrat. It was recorded for OKeh Records on June 11, 1930, in San Antonio, Texas by the Texas group The Fox Chasers as the B side behind "Red Wing". It was printed in Devil's Box, vol. 27, No. 4, Winter 1993 (by Stephen F. Davis), Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1 (1994), Silberberg's Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern (2002) and Lamancusa's The Gettysburg Collection of Old-Time Fiddle Tunes (2021). It was recorded by Dick Barrett on Album Number 1/Fiddling with Dick Barrett (1971),- The Fox Chasers (78 RPM) (1930), Byron Berline on Rounder Fiddle (1990) and on Dad's Favorites (1977) and Gary Lee Moore on Uncle Pig.