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Thread #166702   Message #4168107
Posted By: Lighter
20-Mar-23 - 09:37 PM
Thread Name: Poetry: Hoosier fiddle poem, 1885
Subject: RE: Poetry: Hoosier fiddle poem, 1885
From a few years later. Indianapolis Journal (Sept. 24, 1893):

“So far as is known, Indiana is the only State that has an Old Fiddlers’ Club. The object is to preserve in their original purity and uniqueness the old-fashioned fiddle tunes of early times … like ‘Leather Breeches,’ ‘Possum up a Gum Stump,’ ‘The Bell Cow,’ ‘The Calico,’ ‘Soldier’s Joy,’ ‘Forked Deer,’ ‘Chicken Pie,’ ‘The Linsey Waumus [sic],’ ‘The Rye Straw,’ ‘Run, N[...]r, Run,’ ‘The Gray Eagle,’ ‘Natchez-Under-the-Hill,’ ‘Snowbird on the Ashbank,’ ‘Fisher’s Hornpipe,’ ‘Sally Good’n,’ and others of the same class.”