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Thread #164723   Message #4162939
Posted By: Lighter
19-Jan-23 - 08:27 AM
Thread Name: Texas Fiddle Tunes, 1900
Subject: RE: Texas Fiddle Tunes, 1900
Let's go back another twenty years or so.

According to Texas folklorist J. Frank Dobie (Southwest Review, Apr. 1936) sez:

"[The old-time Texas fiddler of the 1880s] could play ‘Hog Eye’… ‘Hell Among the Yearlings,’ ‘Sally Goodin,’ ‘Nigger in the Woodpile,’ ‘Cotton Eyed Joe,’ ‘Leather Breeches,’ ‘Natchez Under the Hill,’ ‘Turkey in the Straw,’ ‘Soapsuds Under the Fence,’ ‘Hogs in the Corn,’ ‘Money in Both Pockets,’ ‘Kitty O’Neil,’ ‘Dinah Had a Wooden Leg,’ ‘Saddle Old Spike,’ ‘Mollie Put the Kettle On,’ ‘Little Black Bull Came Down the Mountain,’ ‘Eighth of January,’ ‘Sandy Land,’ ‘Money Musk,’ ‘Tommie, Don’t Go,’ … ‘Come into My Bower’…and about forty-‘leven others. But his favorite was ‘Blackjack Grove.’”

Again most are sill familiar. ("Dinah Had a Wooden Leg" is better known as "Sally Ann.")