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04 May 18 - 10:17 PM (#3922232) Subject: Folklore: Titles of Mississippi Fiddle Tunes 1917 From: Lighter The front page of the Columbus (Miss.) Commercial, Oct. 28, 1917, tells of an "old fiddlers' contest" attended by "more than a thousand people, representing two states." About 23 fiddlers too part. Noah Sanders, of McCrary, Miss., walked off with the first prize of $25 - about $450 in today's buying power. The article lists the names of the tunes that were played. Not all of them are now identifiable: Leather Breeches Alabama Girl Johnnie Stole a Pumpkin Katie Did Home Sweet Home Lost John Lone Indian Sally Goodman Lost Child Old Dan Tucker Wolfs [sic] are Howling Old Slow Casey Jones Mississippi Sawyer Hell among the Yearlings Indian Warwhoop Cotton Eyed Joe Old Grey Horse Johnnie on the Railroad The Devil's Hiccough Turkey and [sic] the Straw The [sic] Fisher's Hornpipe |
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05 May 18 - 05:36 AM (#3922256) Subject: RE: Titles of Mississippi Fiddle Tunes 1917 From: GUEST,Hootenanny If you spend any time with fiddlers at old time sessions you will soon find out that numerous, possibly every fiddle tune exists under more than one name and likewise many different titles are used for the same tune. The tune sometimes known as Wild Horse has about five or six names. John Lover has four at least. There are a number of Lost Indians. Drunken Hiccoughs is also known as Rye Whiskey, Devil's Dream is also known as Booger Man's Nightmare. etc etc. You could go on and on. Eighteen of the above titles come up at sessions which I attend. |
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19 Aug 18 - 05:36 PM (#3945023) Subject: RE: Titles of Mississippi Fiddle Tunes 1917 From: Lighter Here's a list of old-time tunes from the Dallas Morning News of Aug. 28, 1927. The tone of the article suggests that most all of them are from the 1890's or earlier. ("Red Wings" [sic] is one exception.) Fine Times at Our House (or "George Booker") Sallie Gooden Arkansas Traveler Gwine to the Weddin' with Sallie Ann (or "Great Big 'Taters in Sandy Land.") Sugar in the Coffee Haste to the Wedding Billy in the Low Ground Bonaparte's Retreat Gray Eagle The Campbells are Coming The Fisher's Hornpipe Molly, Put the Kettle On Dan Tucker Sallie Johnson The Mocking Bird Wagoner Snow-Bird on the Ash Bank Hell Among the Yearlings Cotton-Eyed Joe Seamus O'Brien Soldier's Joy Durang [sic] Hornpipe Mississippi Sawyer The Downfall of Paris I Love Somebody Texas Quick Step Forked Deer Eighth of January Rickets [sic] Hornpipe Sailor's Hornpipe Red Wings Walk Along, John Hickman Rag Dill Pickle Rag Nigger in the Wood Pile Devil's Dream Done Gone Indian Eat the Woodchuck Leather Breeches Silver Bell Waltz Run, Nigger, Run Old Molly Hair [sic] Buffalo Girls Rabbit, Where's Your Mamma? Give the Fiddler a Dram When You and I Were Young, Maggie Rye Straw The Old Bell Cow Jimmy on the Railroad Pop Goes the Weasel The Old Gray Mare Life on the Ocean Wave Over the Waves Bonnie Blue Flag Take Off Your Overcoat and Throw It at the Ladies Kitty Clyde Natchez Under the Hill Zip Coon Turkey in the Straw A few more titles from the same paper in 1900: Pendleton's Reel Culpepper Possum Up a Gum Stump Gilroy [sic] Black-Eyed Susie Girl I Left Behind Me Banko Yankee Doodle Melinda Rory O'Moore Hell Broke Loose in Georgia Dixie Siege of Knoxville Flowers of Edinburgh Kingdom Come Old Black Joe Suwannee River Drunkard's Lament Black Jack Grove Home, Sweet Home All these tunes were known in Texas. I posted another, shorter list, also from Texas in 1901, on the "Opinionated Civil War" thread. It offers a few additional titles. |
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22 Aug 18 - 11:46 AM (#3945674) Subject: RE: Titles of Mississippi Fiddle Tunes 1917 From: leeneia I know 30 of these old songs. How they do persist! Thanks. |