- Style
- Old-time
- Tradition
- Round Peak, North Carolina
- Form
- Reel
- Key
- A
- Level
- 3
- Played on
- Fiddle, Mandolin, and Banjo
In the public domain. Source
Music
100bpm
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Chord chart
History
A one part reel and song from Tommy Jarrell of Mount Airy, North Carolina, who fiddled it with his AEae cross tuning. Jarrell, Fred Cockerham and Oscar Jenkins recorded it in 1973 for their County album Stay All Night, singing verses between passes of the tune.
Each verse repeats its first line and ends "this morning." The song has collected plenty of floating verses, about rolling dice, hunting hogs and bullfrogs, and running when the police come.
Roll your dice and have your fun this morning, Roll your dice and have your fun this morning; Roll your dice and have your fun, Run like the devil when the police come this morning.