Freddy Badger | Freddy Badger - "Mooshatanio" Banjo Lesson (Jimmie Driftwood cover) @FreddyBadger | Uploaded February 2021 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
A viewer who recently began playing banjo left a comment requesting the tablature for "Mooshatanio" by Jimmie Driftwood, but being that I don't know how to write/read tablature, I thought I'd try recording a lesson instead. This is my first time recording a tutorial. If there are any fellow pickers watching, please comment and let me know if it is helpful.
MISTAKE CLEAR-UP: In the video I incorrectly refer to the style of banjo playing I'm using as "overhand." I meant to say up-picking or upstroke, also known as Seeger style. "Overhand" is a traditional term for clawhammer style, which differs from the style used in this video.
Verse:
Along about eighteen-hundred, I guess
I took me a trip into the wilderness
Crossed the Mississippi, let my rifle roar
No white man had ever been there before
I turned my face to the setting sun
I lived by my knife and I lived by my gun
I came to a river called the Little Buffalo
And met a pretty maiden, called Mooshatanio.
Chorus:
Mooshatanio, Mooshatanio
I hugged her and I kissed her on the Little Buffalo
Mooshatanio, Mooshatanio
The Big Chief's daughter was the Mooshatanio.
Verse:
A brave called Buzzard, and a brave called Crow,
And a brave called Hawk loved the Mooshatanio
They had a great battle with the arrow and the bow
And the Hawk shot the Buzzard and the Buzzard shot the Crow
The Hawk and I went a-hunting on a hill
But I knew it was me he was wanting to kill
I left him a-layin' where the honey suckles grow
And said goodbye to my Mooshatanio.
*Chorus*
Verse:
I went back home, my Mother to see
And stayed thirty years in Middle Tennessee
When I got back to the Little Buffalo
They showed me the grave of my Mooshatanio
The young chief's heart was brave and true
His hair was red and his eyes were blue
His father and his mother, he let me know
Was the Great White Spirit and the Mooshatanio.
Mooshatanio, Mooshatanio
He was my son, but I couldn't let him know
Mooshatanio, Mooshatanio
The Great White Spirit and the Mooshatanio.
*Chorus*
A viewer who recently began playing banjo left a comment requesting the tablature for "Mooshatanio" by Jimmie Driftwood, but being that I don't know how to write/read tablature, I thought I'd try recording a lesson instead. This is my first time recording a tutorial. If there are any fellow pickers watching, please comment and let me know if it is helpful.
MISTAKE CLEAR-UP: In the video I incorrectly refer to the style of banjo playing I'm using as "overhand." I meant to say up-picking or upstroke, also known as Seeger style. "Overhand" is a traditional term for clawhammer style, which differs from the style used in this video.
Verse:
Along about eighteen-hundred, I guess
I took me a trip into the wilderness
Crossed the Mississippi, let my rifle roar
No white man had ever been there before
I turned my face to the setting sun
I lived by my knife and I lived by my gun
I came to a river called the Little Buffalo
And met a pretty maiden, called Mooshatanio.
Chorus:
Mooshatanio, Mooshatanio
I hugged her and I kissed her on the Little Buffalo
Mooshatanio, Mooshatanio
The Big Chief's daughter was the Mooshatanio.
Verse:
A brave called Buzzard, and a brave called Crow,
And a brave called Hawk loved the Mooshatanio
They had a great battle with the arrow and the bow
And the Hawk shot the Buzzard and the Buzzard shot the Crow
The Hawk and I went a-hunting on a hill
But I knew it was me he was wanting to kill
I left him a-layin' where the honey suckles grow
And said goodbye to my Mooshatanio.
*Chorus*
Verse:
I went back home, my Mother to see
And stayed thirty years in Middle Tennessee
When I got back to the Little Buffalo
They showed me the grave of my Mooshatanio
The young chief's heart was brave and true
His hair was red and his eyes were blue
His father and his mother, he let me know
Was the Great White Spirit and the Mooshatanio.
Mooshatanio, Mooshatanio
He was my son, but I couldn't let him know
Mooshatanio, Mooshatanio
The Great White Spirit and the Mooshatanio.
*Chorus*
