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Thread #67708   Message #1133129
Posted By: CelesteF
10-Mar-04 - 12:24 PM
Thread Name: Tune Req: Crippled Kingfisher
Subject: The Crippled Kingfisher
In "The Spring of '65", there's a verse that mentions a fiddle tune called 'The Crippled Kingfisher'. Does anyone know this tune?

The song is on Folkway's "Mountain Music of Kentucky." It seems to be a relative of "1845" (recorded by Harry Tuft on 'Across the Blue Mountains").

Here's the verse:

I'll tell you of our party and how it did commence / When us four jolly drunk boys got on the floor to dance / The fiddler being willin', his arm a-bein' strong, / He played "The Crippled Kingfisher" about four hours long