- Style
- Old-time
- Tradition
- American old-time
- Form
- Reel
- Key
- A
- Level
- 5
- Played on
- Fiddle
In the public domain. Source
Music
90bpm
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Chord chart
History
Among older fiddlers "Lost Indian" was less one tune than a family of tunes, tied together by the AEAC# cross tuning more than by the melody, according to Guthrie Meade, Mark Wilson and Charles Wolfe. The family runs from Virginia to Texas, and "Black Mountain Rag" and "Cherokee Shuffle" are relatives.
Fiddlers sometimes let out a whoop while playing it, and Kentucky fiddler Ed Haley's version was said to sound like a lost man calling in the woods. Eck Robertson and Benny Thomasson recorded Texas versions.