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'''GRANDMAMMY LOOK AT UNCLE SAM'''. AKA - "[[Granny Look at Uncle Sam]]," "[[Grandma Take a Look at Uncle Sam]]," "[[Run Here Granny Take a Look at Uncle Sam]]" (Ed Hayley's title). Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, West Virginia, eastern Kentucky, Tennessee. A Dorian/Mixolydian/Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABCC. The tonality keeps shifting between the minor and major throughout the tune. The following ditty was sung to the tune: 
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''Run here Grandmammy, look at (Uncle) Sam,''<br>
'''He's soppin' all the gravey and eatin' all the ham.''<br>
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According to Wilson Douglas, Kentucky fiddler Ed Hayley played this tune, calling it by the above ditty lines.   
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''Source for notated version'': Howard Forrester who learned it from his Uncle Bob Cates (Hickman, Tennessee) [Phillips]. 
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''Printed sources'': Phillips ('''Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 2'''), 1995; p. 57.
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''Recorded sources'': <font color=teal>Marimac AHS #3, Glen Smith - "Say Old Man" (1990. Learned from Howdy Forrester). Rounder CD0392, John Hartford - "Wild Hog in the Red Brush and a Bunch of Others You Might Not Have Heard" (1996. Learned from Howdy Forrester). Rounder CD-0388, Gene Goforth - "Emminence Breakdown" (1997).</font>
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See also listing at:<br>
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/g08.htm#Graloatu]<br>
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