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AS WE SAILED FROM THE DOWNS. Irish, Air (3/4 time). E Flat Major. Standard. AB. "The song tells of the wreck of a vessel on the coast of the County Down on its way from London to Belfast."
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As we sailed from the Downs near fair London town,
It's then we had fine pleasant weather;
For two days or three we'd a very calm sea,
And our good ship she wrought with much pleasure.
Buth then rose a fog, and our vessel did log,
You could scarcely observe our slow motion;
When to our surprise the storm did arise,
And the billows did foam through the ocean
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Source for notated version: "Mr. J. McKenzie of Newtownards, a great lover of Irish Music and of the corresponding folk songs, sent me the (air) about 30 yeards ago" (i.e. 1875). Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 319, pg. 149.
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COON ON A LOG. AKA and see "Little Moses."

DREAM SONG. American, Country Dance Tune (4/4 time). G Major. Standard. AAB. "(This tune) was heard in a dream...Mrs. Armstrong relates that she dreamed of seeing her Uncle Laney--the most accomplished fiddler in the family, and the one who knew the greatest store of old music--sitting on a log in a clearing and playing this air on his violin. The tune impressed her so by its wistful quality that she still recalled it when awake; so she at once tried it out on her fiddle and committed it to memory. The tune itself, it may be noted, is very much in the style of a British folk melody" (Bayard). Source for notated version: Mrs. Sarah Armstrong, (near) Derry, Pennsylvania, November 18, 1943 (composed by herself) [Bayard]. Bayard (Hill Country Tunes), 1944; No. 28.

ECHOES OF/FROM THE OZARKS. AKA and see "Echoes of the Hills." Old-Time, Piece. USA, Missouri. D Major. Standard. AB (Christeson, Ford): AABB (Phillips). The tune is melodically similar to the popular song "Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane" and appears to be, in fact, a song tune. See also the related "Georgia Boys." Missouri fiddler Sam Long, originally from Oklahoma, recorded the tune (via acoustic, not electronic methods) in 1926, and despite the rather poor quality of the sound it sold well in the Mid-west and West. Gus Meade and W.L. McNeil researched Long and discovered he had been born in 1876 and died sometime in March 1931 (perhaps in Wichita, Kansas). He was the first Ozark fiddler to have been recorded. Source for notated version: African-American fiddler Bill Driver (Cole County, Missouri) [Christeson]; Clyde Davenport (Indiana) [Phillips]. R.P. Christeson (Old Time Fiddler's Repertory, Vol. 1), 1973; pg. 178. Ford (Traditional Music in America), 1940; pg. 123. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, Vol. 1, 1994; pg. 80. Recorded on Gennett 3284, 1926, also appears on County 520, Sam Long (Ozark Mtns.) - "Echoes of the Ozarks, Vol. 3." Marimac 9038, Dan Gellert & Brad Leftwich - "A Moment in Time." Missouri State Old Time Fiddlers' Association, Lyman Enloe (b. 1906). Missouri State Old Time Fiddlers' Association, Pete McMahon - "Kansas City Rag."

FARE YOU WELL MY SUSAN. AKA and see "Frog in the Millpond." Old-Time, Song or Dance Tune (4/4 time). USA, southwestern Pa. G Major. Standard. AAB. Bayard collected this tune which was used as both a song and dance tune in southwestern Pa. He thinks sounds as if it may have come from the American minstrel tradition, and gives the ditty his source sang to it:
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Fare you well, my Susan.
Fare you well, my dear.
Fare you well, my Susan
I'm goin' to leave you here--
Chorus:
Frog in the millpond, hoppadoo, hoppadoo,
Frog in the millpond, hoppadoodle day.
Frog in the millpond settin' on a log,
Devil on the hillside gruntin' like a hog.
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Source for notated version: James Dains (Greene County, Pa., 1930's) [Bayard]. Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 71, pg. 48.

GIRL ON A LOG. Old-Time, Fiddle Tune. The title appears in a list of traditional Ozark Mountain fiddle tunes compiled by folklorist/musicologist Vance Randolph, published in 1954.

GROUNDHOG. Old-Time, Song Tune and Breakdown. USA, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia. A Major. Standard. One part. A well-known Appalachian folk song, nursery and fun song, and banjo tune. Brown says, "Its appearence in the Ozarks is doubtless due to immigration from Kentucky. It has not been found in the northern states, nor is it a Negro song." The first two verses in "Traditional American Folk Songs" go:
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Two in a stump and one in a log
Two in a stump and one in a log,
Don't I wish I had a dog
Groundhog!
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Yonder comes Sal with a great long pole,
Yonder comes Sal with a great long pole,
To punch that groundhog out of his hole,
Groundhog! (Warner)
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Source for notated version: learned by Frank Proffitt (North Carolina) from his father [Warner]. Warner (Traditional American Folk Songs), 1984; pgs. 296-297. Flying Fish 102, New Lost City Ramblers - "Twenty Years/Concert Performances" (1978). Folkways FA 2360, Frank Proffitt. Heritage 054, Tommy Jarrell - "Brandywine 83: Music of French America" (1984). Marimac 9000, Dan Gellert & Shoofly - "Forked Deer" (1986). Recorded Anthology of American Music (1978) - "Traditional Southern Instrumental Styles." Rounder Cd0278, Mike Seegar - "Solo-Old Time Country Music" (1991). The Whistlepigs - "Out of Their Hole."

HARVEY, THE. Canadian, Jig. D Major. Standard. AABB. Messer (Way Down East), 1948; No. 79. Parts of this tune are equivalent to several Pennsylvania collected untitled quadrilles that appear grouped together in Bayard (1981, Nos. 527-530, pgs. 472-474), and the first part of "Rolling Off a Log" (Cole). Messer (Anthology of Favorite Fiddle Tunes), 1980; No. 137, pg. 88.

LITTLE BROWN JUG. American; Jig, Schottische (2/4 time) and Song Tune. D Major ('A' part) & D Mixolydian ('B' part) [Cole]: D Major [Bayard, Ruth, Sweet]: C Major [Ford]: G Major [Phillips]. Standard. AB (Ruth): AA'B (Bayard): AABB (Phillips): AA'BB' (Sweet). The tune goes to a once-popular college song, but it appears to have originally been composed for the minstrel stage by one 'Eastburn', believed to be a pseudonym for Joseph E(astburn) Winner (1837-1918). He copyrighted the melody in 1869. J.E. Winner, as the name on the copyright goes, of Philadelphia, was the younger brother of the composer and publisher Septimus Winner. "Little Brown Jug" is credited to one Jas. Hand in Cole's 1001, although this is considered unreliable. It has been suggested that the second strain of the "Jug" tune is a variant of the first strain of Irish melody "Tatter Jack Walsh."
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Me and my wife, little black dog,
Crossed the creek on a hickory log;
She fell in, got stuck in the mud,
But I still hung to my little brown jug.
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Despite its stage origins, the tune quickly entered traditional repertoire and appears to have been widely disseminated. "Little Brown Jug" was cited as having commonly been played at Orange County, New York, country dances in the 1930's (Lettie Osborn, New York Folklore Quarterly), and it was known at the same time at the other end of the country by Arizona fiddler Kenner C. Kartchner, who said, "many an amateur plays this simple old song" (Shumway). The tune was recorded for the Library of Congress by musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph from Ozark Mountain fiddlers in the early 1940's. Mt. Airy, North Carolina, fiddler Tommy Jarrell learned the tune from his father, because the lyric "tickled" him. African-American fiddler Cuje Bertram (Ky.) recorded the tune in 1970 on a home recording made for his family. Another African-American fiddler, North Carolinian Joe Thompson, played the tune in FCGD tuning. It was recorded on a 78 RPM by Kanawha County, West Virginia fiddler Clark Kessinger (1896-1975).
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"Little Brown Jug" was the second tune that Missouri fiddler Art Galbraith learned as a boy, who received instruction from his Uncle Mark (a three-fingered fiddler, the result of an accident chopping corncobs), his cousin and others. Art's father, no musician, was proud of his son's budding talent and was constantly prodding him to play for anyone who would listen, and this was well-known in the family. One day the young Galbraith attended a Fourth of July picnic on the James River that featured a square dance:
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So most of the time while they were dancing, all I was doing was
listening to the music. Dancing didn't interest me much. Then (his
cousin) said, "Come here a minute. Take this fiddle and play. I want
to dance one." And, oh, it just scared me to death to get up before
all those hundreds of people. I knew nearly every one of them and
they knew me, but that was the worst thing that could happen.
But he kept on. He said, "Why, you can do it. I showed you how
to play it. Play Little Brown Jug." So I got up there and the
guitar player says, "Well, I'll play with you!" So I played for
a square dance set. It scared me. I was just miserable. But I got
through it and they danced, so I guess it was all right. And later
on I played with him and others for dancing after I got to
learning more tunes. (Bittersweet Magazine, 1981)
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Phillip's version is only loosely based on the familiar song tune. Sources for notated versions: Wilbur Neal (elderly fiddler from Jefferson County, Pa., 1948) [Bayard]; Brian Hubbard [Phillips]; caller George Van Kleeck (Woodland Valley, Catskill Mtns., New York) [Cazden].
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Adam, No. 7. Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 428, pg. 406. Cazden (Dances from Woodland), 1945; pg. 6. Cole (1001 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; pg. 54. Ford (Traditional Music in America), 1940; pg. 33. Jarman (Square Dance Tunes), No. or pg. 20. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), Vol. 1, 1994; pg. 142. Ruth (Pioneer Western Folk Tunes), 1948; No. 12, pg. 6. Sweet (Fifer's Delight), 1965/1981; pg. 10. County 778, Tommy Jarrell - "Pickin' on Tommy's Porch" (1984).
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LITTLE MOSES. AKA and see "Coon on a Log." Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, North Carolina. The title is a regional one, from the Carolina flatlands. Marimac 9064D, Lauchlin Stamper & A.C. Overton - "Sally with the Run Down Shoes" (1996).

LITTLE OLD LOG CABIN (DOWN/IN THE LANE). Old-Time, Song Tune. The song was written and published in 1871 by a Kentucky riverman turned vaudeville songwriter, Will Hayes. It was recorded in October, 1925 for Edison by Fiddlin' Cowan Powers and Family, who had waxed an earlier version for Victor, in August, 1924 (though for that particular side the Victor company brought in Carson Robison to perform the vocal). The piece was first released in 1923, however, when Fiddlin' John Carson's (north Georgia) version became the second best-selling country music record for that year. Yet another performance, Ernest Stoneman's, made the charts that decade, in 1926 when his version became the fifth best-selling country music record.

LITTLE OLD LOG CABIN FOR SALE. Canadian, Waltz. Canada, Prince Edward Island. G Major. Standard. AABB'. A waltz setting of a song air. Source for notated version: Sidney Baglole (b. 1912, Southwest Lot 16, West Prince County, Prince Edward Island; now resident of Freetown) [Perlman]. Perlman (The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island), 1996; pg. 170.

LLYDAW (Brittany). Welsh, Air. Robin Huw Bowen thinks this hymn air originated in Brittany, but was transported to Wales. Flying Fish FF70610, Robin Huw Bowen - "Telyn Berseiniol fy Ngwlad/Welsh Music on the Welsh Triple Harp" (1996. From the playing of Dafydd and Gwyndaf Roberts {Ar Log}, who had it from Nansi Richards).

LOATH TO DEPART [1]. English, Air (6/4 time). C Minor. Standard. AB. Kines (1964) says this was the "Auld Lang Syne" of the Elizabethan period and was mentioned in several works, including Beaumont and Fletcher's Wit at Several Weapons. It was set as a round for four voices in Deuteromelia. A Welsh tune called "Anodd Ymadael" (Loath to Depart) appears in Edward Jones' ('Bardd y Brenen') first volume of Welsh music The Musical and Poetical Relics of the Welsh Bards (1784). Jones was harpist laureate to King George IV. Kines (Songs From Shakespeare's Plays and Popular Songs of Shakespeare's Time), 1964; pgs. 102-103. Flying Fish FF70610, Robin Huw Bowen - "Telyn Berseiniol fy Ngwlad/Welsh Music on the Welsh Triple Harp" (1996).

LOG CABIN [1]. Old-Time, Breakdown. D Major/Mixolydian. Standard. AA'BB'. Source for notated version: Gretchen and Rebecca Koehler [Phillips]. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, Vol. 1), 1994; pg. 145.

LOG CABIN, THE [2]. Irish, Reel. Bulmer & Sharpley (Music from Ireland), Vol. 4, No. 22.

LOG CHAIN, THE [1]. American, Jig. USA, Southwestern Pa. D Major. Standard. AB. Source for notated version: James Smalley (Westmoreland County, Pa., 1944) [Bayard]. Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 503, pgs. 459-460.

LOG CHAIN [2]. Old-Time, Breakdown (cut time). D Major. Standard. AABB. Source for notated version: Jeff Goehring with the Red Mules (Ohio) [Phillips]. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), Vol. 1, 1994; pg. 146.

LOG DRIVER'S WALTZ.
T:Log Driver's Waltz
L:1/16
M:12/16
K:G
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d^cd |: "G"e2d B2G "G"D2G F2G | "C"A2G F2G "C"E2E A2G |
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LOG SPLITTER, THE. Scottish. Composed by Phil Cunningham. Green Linnet GLCD 1182, The Tannahill Weavers - "Choice Cuts" (1997).

LOST INDIAN [5]. Old-Time, Jig or Quadrille. A Major. Standard or AEAE. AABB. Ira Ford's story of the title, filled with his usual narrative excesses, is as follows: "A steamboat plying on the Mississippi river anchored at a landing owing to the swollen waters, which were filled with driftwod and logs, making it too difficult to navigate. One evening, while waiting for the flood waters to subside, the passengers were dancing to the music of a fiddler entertaining them with the tunes and songs of the day. Suddenly, above the sound of the raging river, a quivering wail ending in a series of whoops came eerily across the water, and out of the impenetrable darkness into the radius of the boat's light floated a great log. On it was an Indian struggling to keep his balance. The wild cry echoed once again over the river and then the swirling currents caught the log, and the unfortunate redskin disappeared in a mighty plunge under the boiling waters. This tragedy made such a lasting impression on the fiddler's mind that he later became mildly insane. Thereafter the only tune that he would play was the one interrupted by this harrowing experience, in which he incorporated the wails and shouts of the lost Indian" (Ford, 1940). Ford (Traditional Music in America), 1940; pg. 124 and 128 (two versions; Standard and AEAE).

ROLLING OFF A LOG [2]. AKA and see "The Green Cockade," "Sadler's Balloon." American, Jig. D Major. Standard. ABBC. Bayard (1944) notes this is another tune that sounds like it came from the British Isles, yet is difficult to trace. In his 1981 collection he thought his untitled march (No. 467, pg. 444) a better version of the tune. Sources for notated version: Mrs. Sarah Armstrong (Derry, Pa., 1943) [Bayard, 1944], Hiram Horner (fifer from Westmoreland and Fayette Counties, Pa.) [Bayard, 1981]. Bayard (Hill Country Tunes), 1944; No. 14. Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 467, pg. 444.

RYE WHISKEY [1]. AKA and see "Drunken Hiccups." Old-Time, Waltz or Song tune. USA; Arkansas, Arizona. A Major. AEAC#. The tune is from an old and distinguished family originating in the British Isles, but well-known in America (see notes for "Drunken Hiccups"). The tune features pizzicato, or plucked, notes. Arizona fiddler Kenner C. Kartchner, who knew the tune, "converted the usual EAEA tuning to standard" (Shumway). The usual tuning however, is AEAC#. The tune was recorded for the Library of Congress from musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph from Ozark Mountain fiddlers in the early 1940's. The title is from a song set to the tune:
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Rye whiskey, rye whiskey, rye whiskey I cried,
If I don't have rye whiskey I surely will die.
Other lyrics go:
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I'll eat when I'm humgry, I'' drink when I'm dry;
If the hard times don't kill me I'll live till I die.
**
Beefsteak when I'm hungry, red liquor when I'm dry,
Greenbacks when I'm hard up and religion when I die.
**
Jack o' diamonds, jack o' diamonds, I know you of of old,
You've robbed my poor pockets of silver and gold.
**
Oh Whiskey, you villian, you've been by downfall;
You've kicked me, you,ve cuffed me, but I love you for all.
**
If the ocean was whiskey and I was a duck,
I'd dive to the bottom and get one sweet suck.
**
But the ocean ain't whiskey and I ain't a duck,
So we'll round up the cattle and then we'll get drunk.
**
An interesting black variant was printed by the African-American collector Thomas Talley in his 1922 book Negro Folk Rhymes, although the song mostly appears in white collections. Talley's version, called "I'll Eat When I'm Hungry," goes:
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I'll eat when I'se hongry,
An' I'll drink when I'se dry;
An' if de whitefolks don't kill me,
I'll live till I die.
**
In my liddle log cabin,
Ever since I'se been born;
Dere hain't been no nothin'
'Cept dat hard salt parch corn.
**
But I knows whar's a henhouse,
An' de tucky he charce;
An' if ole Mosser don't kill me,
I cain't never starve.
**
County 202, "Eck Robertson: Famous Cowboy Fiddler." Marimac 9054, The Ill-Mo Boys - "Fine as Frog Hair" (1995).

SADLER'S BALLOON. AKA and see "The Green Cockake," "Rolling Off a Log." Appears in "Twenty-Four Country Dances for the Year 1812." Bayard thinks the title may refer to one James Sadler who made the first successful balloon ascension in February, 1784, and thus may be an early 18th century composition. A version also appears in Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle, 1981, No. 467, pg. 444), an untitled fife march.

SHAD(E)Y GROVE [1]. Old-Time; Breakdown and Song Tune. USA, North Carolina. A Minor. Standard. AA. There are towns called Shady Grove in Virginia or Kentucky, though the title may refer to a place.
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Shady Grove, my little love, Shady Grove I know
Shady Grove, my little love, bound for the Shady Grove.
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Cheeks as red as the blooming rose, eyes the deepest brown,
You are the darling of my heart, stay til the sun goes down.
***
Shady Grove, my little love, Shady Grove my darlin/
Shady Grove, my little love, I'm going away to Harlan.
***
Went to see my Shady Grove, she was standing in the door,
Shoes and stockings in her hand, little bare feet on the floor.
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From Jean Ritchie's Singing Family of the Cumberlands (1955) (condensed):
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Dad remembered for us the first day he ever heard the fiddle played. He was about nine years old and going to school to old man Nick Gerhart... when Maggard Ritchie came in.
"He'd been off somewheres, courtin in Virginny, and he'd brought a feller home... and they had come to the schoolhouse to visit with Nick. Nick told us not to look up while they talked... But you know that stranger had a fiddle in his hand, and pretty soon he propped it in the cradle of his arm and begun to play that thing. Lordie! It was the prettiest sweepingest music. ... I just couldn't stand to sit still on that log bench and that tune snaking around so.
No sir, that was one tune that didn't stay in one place no time at all. ... I thought I was going plum crazy. You could hear feet a-stomping all over the house, benches a-creaking, young uns a-giggling...
"Finally I let out a yell and lept off'n that bench and commenced to dance and clog around.... some of the other boys jumped up too.... .... after a while they left, and the teacher tried to settle us, back to our books, but I couldn't even see the print. I kept seeing that old fiddle bow race around on "Shady Grove." We around there had always sung that tune middling fast, hopped around to it a little bit, but that fiddle had tuck out with that'n like the Devil was after her. ... I kept laughing and wiggling in my seat, and saying the words to "Shady Grove" instead of my lesson.
Cheeks as red as a bloomin rose,
Eyes of the deepest brown,
You are the darlin of my heart,
Stay till the Sun goes down.
Shady Grove, my little love,
Shady Grove I know,
Shady Grove, my little love,
Bound for the Shady Grove.
(more verses).
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These verses have also been heard:
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Shady Grove, my little love, Shady Grove my darling
Shady Grove, my little love, I'm going back to Harlan
(or)
Shady Grove, my little love, Shady Grove I know
Shady Grove, my little love, I'm bound for Shady Grove
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When I was a little boy, I wanted a Barlow knife
Now I want little Shady Grove to say she'll be my wife
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Cut a banjo from a gourd, string it up with twine
The only song that I can play is "Wish that gal was mine"
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Apples in the summer time, peaches in the fall
If I can't have the girl I love, I don't want none at all
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I've got a big fine horse, and corn to feed him on
All I need's little Shady Grove to feed him when I'm gone
***
Johnson (The Kitchen Musician: Occasional Collection of Old-Timey Fiddle Tunes for Hammer Dulcimer, Fiddle, etc.), No. 2, 1982/1988; pg. 4. Rounder 0113, Trapezoid - "Three Forks of Cheat" (1979. Learned from Kilby Snow). Tradition TLP 1007, Mrs. Edd Presnell - "Instrumental Music of the Southern Appalachians" (1956).
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SHOOT THAT TURKEY BUZZARD. AKA and see "Turkey Buzzard," (Closely related to) "Davy Dugger"?? "Engine on a Mogul," "Greasy String," "Old Coon Dog," "Higher Up the Monkey Climbs." Old-Time, Breakdown. USA; east Tennessee, east Kentucky, north Georgia. G Major. Standard. AABB. It has been identified as an east Tennessee tune name, however Rosenbaum (1989) believes it to have been widespread in the Georgia Blue Ridge. The piece is in the repertoire of Montecello, Ky., fiddler Clyde Davenport, who learned it from his father, a Tennessee fiddler. There are various verses sung to the tune:
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Shoot that turkey buzzard, shoot that turkey buzzard,
Shoot that turkey buzzard, flyin' round the mountain.
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Old hen cackle and chickens flew,
Rooster swore that he'd go, too.
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Shoot old Davy Dugger, shoot old Davy Dugger,
Shoot old Davy Dugger, catch his wife an' hug 'er. (Rosenbaum/Chancey)
**
Shoot that turkey buzzard, shoot that turkey buzzard,
Blam!, blam!, caw!, caw! (Kuntz/Any Old Time)
**
Sources for notated versions: Ebenezer [Brody]: Any Old Time String Band (Ca.) [Kuntz]; Joe and Chesley Chancey (Boardtown Community, Cherry Log, Gilmer County, Georgia) [Rosenbaum]; Vivian Willaims [Phillips]. Brody (Fiddler's Fakebook), 1983; pg. 256. Kuntz (Ragged but Right), 1987; pg. 322. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), Vol. 1, 1994; pg. 221. Rosenbaum (Folk Visions and Voices: Traditional Music and Song in North Georgia), 1989; pgs. 168-169. Arhoolie 4009, "Any Old Time String Band." Biograph 6007, Ebenezer- "Tell it to Me" (appears as "Turkey Buzzard"). County 405, "The Hillbillies" (appears as third tune of "Soldier's Joy Medley"). Folkways FA 2371, Roger Sprung- "Ragtime Bluegrass 2." Gennett 6775 (78 RPM), Doc Roberts (Ky.). Vetco 506, Fiddlin Van Kidwell- "Midnight Ride."
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