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Thread #166702   Message #4205000
Posted By: Lighter
04-Jul-24 - 05:09 PM
Thread Name: Poetry: Hoosier fiddle poem, 1885
Subject: RE: Poetry: Hoosier fiddle poem, 1885
Most, of the following 71 "pioneer" tunes must have been played in the 1880s in Indiana - and some a generation earlier.

Weekly Times (Columbus, Ind.), Dec. 13, 1895:

                         FIDDLIN' MATCH

The following pioneer tunes were handed the TIMES with a suggestion they be used in the approaching fiddlin' match:

Shipping Port
Arkansas Traveler
Bonapart's [sic] Retreat
Brickyard Joe
Black-eyed Susie
Big-footed Nigger
Buffalo Gals
Captain Jinks
Chippy Get Your Hair Cut
College Hornpipe
Darling Nell of Narangansett Bay
Detroit Schottisch
Dusty Morning
Evening Star Waltz
Fisher's Hornpipe
Fire on the Mountian [sic], Run, Boys, Run
Flying Indian
Goodbye 'Liza Jane
Grape Vine
Haste to the Wedding
Helter Skelter Gallop
Indiana Polka
Irish Washerwoman
Jawbone
Jim Crow
Jack went [sic] Fishing
Jennie Put the Kettle On
Kicking Mule in the Buckwheat Patch
Lanigan's Ball
Life on the Ocean Wave
Leiber [sic] Augustine
Leather Breetches [sic]
Lost Indian
Miss McCloud's Reel
Money Musk
Mississippi Sawyer
Natchez Under the Hill
Nellie Gray
Old Gray Horse Tearin' out of Wilderness [sic]
Old Mother Blair
Old Virginia Never Tire
Old Mother Flanagan
Old Virginia Reel
Old Zip Coon
Old Dan Tucker
Over the River to Charlie
O, Susannah
Paddy on the Turnpike
Perry's Victory
Rocky Road to Newbern
Rip Van Winkle
Rockback Davy
Run, Nigger, Run
Rye Straw
Rattling Down the Acorns
Rory O'Moore
Soap Suds Over the Fence
Such a Getting up Stairs I never did see [sic]
Sugar in the Gourd
Sailor's Hornpipe
Stony Point
Soldier's Joy
Silver Lake
The Campbells are Coming
The Gray Eagle
The Britishers are Coming
The Devil's Dream
The Girl I Left Behind Me
The Old Year Out and the New Year In
The Poor Old Slave
The Wild Horse

I'll speculate that the list is the repertoire of a single person or family. So extensive a list anywhere before 1900 is quite rare.