Frank,

Thanks for the location of "Fourth of July at a Country Fair"
Here's the location:
http://www.honkingduck.com/BAZ/baz_side.php?meth=t&letter=f&title=Fourth%2520Of%2520July%2520At%2520The%2520Country%2520Fair&cui

According to A Fiddler's Companion: FOURTH OF JULY. AKA and see "Chinky Pin," "Love Somebody," "My Love She's But a Lassie Yet," "Too Young to Marry," "Midnight Serenade," "Yellow Eyed Cat," "Buffalo Nickel," "Ten Nights in a Bar Room," "Hair in the Butter," "Richmond Blues," "Farmer Had a Dog," "Lead Out," "Sweet Sixteen," "Darling Child," "I Am My Momma's Darling." Old-Time, Fiddle Tune. The tune was recorded under this title for the Library of Congress by musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph in the early 1940's from Ozark Mountain fiddlers. It may or may not be the Georgia Yellow Hammers 1927 song "Fourth of July at a Country Fair."

I think we can safely say this is a different song. Great song with some nice harmony parts. Here is some of it:

"FOURTH OF JULY AT THE COUNTRY FAIR" by Bill Chitwood & His Georgia Mountaineers
Okeh 45100 Side B
Recorded: Unknown Issued: April 1927

(Brief Fiddle intro)

On the Fourth of July at a country fair
A man went up in a balloon,
He was to go right up through the clouds,
And make a circle around the moon.
But when he got up about ten mile high
He gave the big balloon a pow
As he came down without a parachute
He was hurtin' but alive to shout,

"I ain't got no feather bed
To land on when I fall
I may die in the river
May land on the GD hall
First of all that I'd ever land
Would be a housetop or a tree
Any old haystack that I land on
Would be a home sweet home for me."

A tale I'll tell you of other tramps,
Who never worked a Joe???
He never paid no railroad fare
He took life as a joke.
Of all the barbershops of his life
His load was sinking lead
All I want is a green back door
And a big and I'll be saved

Now I don't stop at no swell hotel
Scrambled eggs and the scene
My boarding house is a big boxcar,
The names on the one I stay
Just give to me one big saloon
Where the ??? warm and free
Any old saloon that I can hang in
Would be home sweet home for me.

My brother Bill to Texas went
Breaks my heart to say,
The cowboys caught him dead the rights
With a neighbors horse one day,
The village committee wrote him up
Put a rope right around his neck
Just throw me down that loop de loop
My poor brother Bill did say. (What'd he say?)

I'ain't got no particular limb,
To hang on when I swing.
You told me I could have my choice
I'd just only ask one thing
I'd like to be hung up on a Gooseberry bush,
I know ????
Any old limb that you hang me on
Would be home sweet home to me.


-Richie