- Style
- Old-time
- Tradition
- American old-time
- Form
- Reel
- Key
- G
- Level
- 3
- Played on
- Fiddle
In the public domain. Source
Music
90bpm
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Chord chart
History
In parts of the South, "leather britches" are green beans strung on a thread and hung to dry for winter. The title may mean the beans, or real leather breeches, and some say the bowing looks like stitching with a needle.
Samuel Bayard traced the tune to the Scottish reel "Lord MacDonald" and an Irish air, with the order of the parts turned around. Paul Gifford found the name in an 1840 diary of a trip through Indiana and in print by 1859, in a dulcimer tutor by Missouri farmer Robert Rudisill. The Leake County Revelers recorded it in 1927.