- Style
- Old-time
- Tradition
- Missouri and Kentucky old-time
- Form
- Reel
- Key
- D
- Level
- 2
- Played on
- Fiddle and Mandolin
In the public domain. Source
Music
100bpm
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Chord chart
History
It is also called "Johnny, Don't Come Home Drunk," and it is known as a Missouri tune: fiddler Charlie Walden puts it on his list of 100 essential Missouri tunes. It turns up across Appalachia and the Midwest too. Nebraska fiddler Bob Walters was recorded playing it in 1954, and Kentucky's Owen "Snake" Chapman thought he had learned it from the radio.
Jeff Titon suspected it came from a temperance song, and some players hear a likeness to the Irish reel "Miss Monaghan's."