- Style
- Bluegrass
- Tradition
- Southern old-time
- Form
- Breakdown
- Key
- A
- Level
- 3
- Played on
- Fiddle
In the public domain. Source
Music
90bpm
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Chord chart
History
A fiddle contest in Gallatin, Tennessee, in 1899 made it the required tune: each contestant played his own version, and a prize went to the best. Kentucky fiddler Blind Joe Mangrum, born in 1853 near Paducah, recorded it for Victor in 1928. In Missouri, R. P. Christeson said, nobody played it before the mid-1940s, which points to its Southern roots. Kenny Baker's 1968 recording brought it into bluegrass.