G Jaybird Died Of The Whooping Cough

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GDgd / learned from a recording by the Foghorn Stringband on their CD "Boombox Squaredance" // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ0VB3ugIJQ I couldn't find an early recorded version. But on Mudcat, I did find lyrics to a rhyme (song) by the same name that dates back to early 1900's: "From Mississippi, country whites, MS of Dr. Harrington, 1909. In E. C. Perrow, 1911, I, JAFL 25, "Songs and Rhymes of the South," II, 35, Songs in Which Animals Figure" from here: http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm? threadid=37475 None of what I have listened to has included singing. But it might be interesting to try and pair them up though.

G John Brown's March old

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I play this in G with the fiddle cross-tuned GDgd. I first learned to play this from a live recording of Alan Jabbour and Bertram Levy. They are pretty much the same melody. http://dla.acaweb.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/Warren/id/1894/rec/1 ...but, like so many other tunes I learned first, when I moved to Memphis and played what I knew with the locals – I learned that there is another version. And I looked to find a recording of the other version that I wanted to learn. I really don't know who's version I ended up learning. It might be just what I picked up from the locals. But it favors what I perceive to be the older, more traditional version from the civil war era. This one I listened to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRXzBGPyJXc There are 2 entries at Fiddler's Companion: http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/JOHAN_JOHN.htm There are 2 audio files at DLA: http://dla.acaweb.org/cdm/search/searchterm/john%20brown's%20march/order/nosort and Slippery-Hill has one: https://www.slippery-hill.com/search-page?search_api_views_fulltext=john+brown%27s+march&=Search

G Johnny Come Along

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GDgd / learned from Mill City Grinders / here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGAxRjWNqrs

G Josie-O

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GDgd / learned from Art Stamper (Good Bye Girls, I'm Going To Boston) / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC96F5BqMyk

G Old Chattanooga

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GDgd / learned this from a Rachel Eddy version on her CD "Chilly Winds" / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk8_0IUSoF0

G Old Mother Flannigan

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GDgd / learned from a Steven Rosen recording on "Old Timey Giants" // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R0P89DXJD8

G Old Yeller Dog ComeTrottin Through The Meetin House

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GDgd / learned to play this from a recording by the Canote Brothers. There is a lot of lyrics that can be found, so I picked the verses I liked and used the chorus from a YouTube video of an interview that Bob Holt did with Charlie Acuff. Charlie plays and sings the tune. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IyomC16KTo) Charlie says he learned it from his grandfather and figures it went back to a time during or right after the civil war. But since there are a good number of variations to the tune with different names - I'm not sure we can say where or when it really originated. (http://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Old_Yeller_Dog)

G Possum On A Rail

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GDgd / learned from Rhys Jones / here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0_KRvYXINc

G Sandy River Belle

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GDgd // I've settled on listening to a version by Sam Gleaves and Myra Morris as my favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqdbuQZuuA8 There are 3 entries in the Fiddler's Companion (I think this version would be #2): http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/SAM_SAO.htm There are 2 versions available on Slippery-Hill: Blue Ridge Highballers in G: https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/sandy-river-belle Chirps Smith in C: https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/sandy-river-belle-0 There are 3 versions available at DLA: Shelor Family: http://dla.acaweb.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/Ferrum/id/3598/rec/1 Tad Wright: http://dla.acaweb.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/Warren/id/2436/rec/2 Jim Shumate (one of Bill Monroe's fiddlers): http://dla.acaweb.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/Warren/id/3810/rec/3 more in the thread topic.

G Shoes And Stockings

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GDgd. A Henry Reed tune I learned from an Alan Jabbour and Bertram Levy recording. I can't find a YouTube video with this recording.

G Silly Bill

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GDgd / learned from Kirk Sutphin (Kirk & Riley - Long Time Peidmont Pals) ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp89QHx71bw

G25 Chase the Banshee

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I learned this from a Chirp Smith recording on his CD "Down In Little Egypt". Fiddle tuned GDgd.

G25 Cherry River Line

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Fiddle tuned GDgd.

Mouse Trap

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Shortest Fiddle tune.

Watermelon Man

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Hey, what's the correct answer?

My all time favorite album. And one of my favorite songwriters.

You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome

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different versions of the same tune

My arrangement of a fine tune. Played with the low E tuned down to D (drop D).