- Style
- Old-time
- Tradition
- Tennessee and Midwest fiddle
- Form
- Breakdown
- Key
- G
- Level
- 2
- Played on
- Fiddle and Mandolin
In the public domain. Source
Music
100bpm
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Chord chart
History
Tennessee's Fiddlin' Arthur Smith made it known. His grandson Earnest Smith told Susan Songer it was his father's favorite and the first tune he played on the Grand Ole Opry. Smith played it from the 1930s but did not record it until his comeback with the McGee Brothers in the late 1950s.
Midwest fiddlers may have picked it up from his radio broadcasts, or it may have been going around there on its own. Its high part is close to "Forks of Sandy," and Drew Beisswenger heard the "Green Corn" family in its second part.