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'''KIDD AND THE BACON'''. American, Air. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABB. In his spoken introduction to the tune, Wallace Thompson claims the tune was written by his great-great grandfather Wallace, and says:
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''He wrote this on the preacher Nixon Kidd, as a slur. It's called 'Kidd and the Bacon' because Mr. Kidd bought some'' 
''hogs by a man named Berry over about Berry's Bridge and gave them a note for them...and Mr. Berry died, and he'' 
''executed another note to the next man, and he died, and...he just never paid his bill. Never paid for the hogs.'' 
''They lived near my great-great grandfather and the Wallaces were known to take a little drink of whiskey once in'' 
''a while, and play the fiddle and dance, and Brother Kidd didn't think that was the way to live. He preached about'' 
''it quite a bit. And they decided that well, since he was so high-and-mighty and righteous, and wouldn't pay his'' 
''bill for the hogs, he'd just write a song about it. And the title of the song was 'Kidd and the Bacon', and it was'' 
''the first folk-song, as far as we known, that was ever written in Green County. They had a feud over it and fought,''
''any my great-great grandfather was taken into evidence in court over it. And the judge, there, asked him to play'' 
''the tune, and he did, and he [ed. the judge] thought it was funny and dismissed the charges. Then my great-great'' 
''grandfather William Wallace went out around the courthouse playing the fiddle and sang 'The Kidd and the Bacon', and'' 
''they shot at him a few times. The holes were still in the building about twenty-five years ago...they've reworked'' 
''the building now, some now, and they've taken the bullet holes out of it.''<br> 
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''Then my great-great grandfather took his'' 
''tobacco to Louisville once in hogsheads and when the buyers came around he got on the hogshead and played the'' 
''fiddle and sang 'The Kidd and the Bacon' and told them the story of it. They gave him a hat with a gold band'' 
''around it, or a gold-colored band anyway, with his name on it...told me, oh, about twenty years ago, my Uncle Dick'' 
''was ninety-five then, tellin' me about it...he knew where the hat was, and at that time I wanted to get it, but I'' 
''never could locate it. This is the 'Kidd and the Bacon'. I've changed it a little bit, changed the tune...I couldn't'' 
''play it just like they played it, and I thought, well there's nobody here today that knows the difference anyway.'' 
''The words were:<br>
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''Nixon Kidd is a preachin' man, I know I'm not mistaken,''<br>
''He preached all night, until daylight, and took it all in bacon.''<br> 
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<p><font face="Century Gothic" size="3"> '''Additional notes''' </font></p>
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<font color=red>''Source for notated version''</font>: - Wallace Thompson, recorded in the field in Green County, Kentucky, 1988, by Bruce Greene [Milliner & Koken].
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<font color=red>''Printed sources''</font> : - Milliner & Koken ('''Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes'''), 2011; p. 360. 
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<font color=red>''Recorded sources'': </font> <font color=teal> -  </font>
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See also listing at:<br>
Hear Wallace Thompson's 1988 field recording by Bruce Green at Berea Sound Archives [https://soundarchives.berea.edu/items/show/1071]<br>
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