The previous day, the Dallas Morning News listed the following titles and variants to the list of tunes played at the same contest (at Bonhom, Tex.):

Hell Broke Loose in Georgia
Dog Eat a Rye Straw
Mollie Put the Kettle On
Cat Slept in the Shavings   
God Speed the Plow
Black Cat’s Foot
Bulldog’s Eye
Dat Gal is So Deceivin’
De Cackling Hen
All Jine Hands.

On July 14, 1900, the Grenada [Miss.] Sentinel noted that:

“The Old Time Fiddlers’ Contest will be a state event. The following tunes will be played…:

1. Gray Eagle
2. Forked Deer
3. Soap Suds Over de Fence
4. Leather Breeches
5. Devil’s Dream
6. Roundin’ Up de Corn
7. Run, Nigger, Run
8. Old Sally Goodin
9. Eighth of January
10. Mississippi Sawyer
11. Old Hen Cackle
12. Black Eyed Susie
13. Sugar in de Goad
14. Chicken in de Bread Tray   
15. Mollie Put de Kittle On
16. Arkansaw Traveler
17. Natchez Under de Hill
18. Cotton Eyed Joe
19. Old Mollie Hare
20. Possum Up de Gum Stump
21. Buffalo Gals
22. Fishers Hornpipe
23. Billie in de Low Groun’
24. Give de Fiddler a Dram
25. Puncheon Floor
26. The Girl I Left Behind Me.”


The form of some of the titles suggests the importance of African-American fiddlers to the tune tradition. (There are no "blues" in titles on any of these 1900 lists.)

Virtually every title on the Mississippi list is still well known, implying that they were chosen because, even 120 years ago, they were   widely played in the area - which, of course, is pretty far from the stereotypical "Appalachian" stomping grounds of these tunes.