Every fiddler I know plays Angelina Baker. Some folks even know the words which are copied below so you can sing along. Question, though. Steven Foster wrote it but is it Angelina Baker, or Angeline The Baker, or Angelina The Baker. Ah - whatever. Like me, she's one happy baker! :o) This was the first tune that make me feel like I could play fiddle. LOVE LOVE LOVE it. Still do. From Wikipedia:
1. Angeline the baker lives in our village green, The way I always loved her beats all you ever seen. CHORUS: Angeline the baker, her age is forty-three, I bought her candy by the peck, and she won't marry me. 2. Her father is the miller, they call him Uncle Sam. I never will forget her, unless I take a dram. CHORUS. 3. Angeline is handsome, Angeline is tall, They say she sprained her ankle a-dancing at the ball. CHORUS. 4. She can't do hard work because she is not stout, She bakes her biscuits every day, and pours the coffee out. CHORUS. 5. I'll never marry no other girl, no matter where I go. I said I'd marry Angeline just twenty years ago. CHORUS. 6. The last time I saw her was at the county fair. Her father run me almost home and told me to stay there. CHORUS.
