Black-Eyed Susie

The New Lost City Ramblers called it one of the most popular breakdowns, sung and played across the South and Southwest. Samuel Bayard traced its family back to "Rosasolis," set by Giles Farnaby around 1600 in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, and to "Three Jolly Sheep Skins," popular in England and Scotland through the 17th and 18th centuries.

In Georgia it was a known fiddle tune by the 1880s. Gid Tanner and Riley Puckett recorded it as a duet in 1924, and the Skillet Lickers recorded a different tune under the same name in 1928, with Puckett singing the usual floating verses.