Done Gone

It is a Texas favorite, played in B flat, a key Southern fiddlers rarely use. The tune is credited to Matt Brown, a well known Panhandle fiddler who never recorded. The story goes that he was stranded about 28 miles outside Amarillo, watched a car pass him by without stopping, and made up "Done Gone" while waiting for the next one. Brown died in 1915, so if the story is true it happened in the early days of the car, and some doubt it.

Eck Robertson's 1923 Victor record put it on the back of his "Sally Johnson" and "Billy in the Lowground" medley, and Bob Wills played it too.