Lyr Add: Moonshine Hollow Band

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Moonshine Hollow Band
From: cnd
Date: 22 Feb 23 - 10:41 AM

I've since been going back and forth on it, but I think the second interlude is actually Turkey In the Straw rather than Rosin the Beau

Subject: Lyr Add: Moonshine Hollow Band
From: cnd
Date: 21 Feb 23 - 07:52 PM

Not a lot of info out there on this song. The only recording out there is by the Georgia Yellow Hammers, who credited the song to Charles E. Moody, the group's banjo player, among other responsibilities. It seems to be their own composition.

Below is my transcription of the lyrics. Listen for yourself here.


MOONSHINE HOLLOW BAND
(as performed by the GEORGIA YELLOW HAMMERS)

Here comes that Moonshine Hollow Band
Raising a mighty heap of sound
Playing their fiddles and old banjo
That good old song I used to know

[Instrumental break to the tune of "Dixie"]

They're stopping now to take a drink
Look how their eyelids blink, blink, blink
Lazarus now rosins up his bow
To play some tune I used to know

[Instrumental break; briefly "Rosin the Beau", then the tune of song]

Fiddles and banjos stay in tune
Guitars and ukuleles croon
Playing that song of long ago
Those darkies sing so soft and low

[Instrumental break to the tune of "Yankee Doodle"]


"Moonshine Hollow Band" - as Georgia Yellow Hammers Vi 21626 [41925] rec. 21 Feb 1928