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'''DIAMOND JOE'''. Old-Time, Breakdown. USA. D Major. ADae tuning (fiddle). AB (The 'B' part was composed by New York fiddler Steve Uhrik).  
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''I'm gonna buy me a sack of flour''<br>
''Cook a hoecake every hour,''<br>
''Diamond Joe better come get me, Diamond Joe.''<br>
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''I'm gonna buy me a piece of meat,''<br>
''Cook me a slice but once a week,''<br>
''Diamond Joe you better come get me, Diamond Joe.''<br>
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''I'm gonna buy me a sack of meal,''<br>
''Take a hoecake to the field,''<br>
''Diamond Joe come and get me, Diamond Joe.''<br>
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''I'm gonna buy me a jug of whiskey,''<br>
''I'm gonna make my baby frisky,''<br>
''Diamond Joe better come get me, Diamond Joe.''<br>
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''I'm gonna buy me a jug of rum,''<br>
''I'm gonna give my Ida some,''<br>
''Diamond Joe you better come get me, Diamond Joe.''<br>
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''Source for notated version'': Liz Slade (Yorktown, New York) [Kuntz].
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''Printed sources'': Kuntz ('''Ragged but Right'''), 1987; p. 277-278. Silberberg ('''Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern'''), 2002; p. 35. 
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''Recorded sources'': <font color=teal>County 514, The Georgia Crackers (a cover name for the Cofer Brothers)- "Hell Broke Loose in Georgia" (orig. rec. 1927). Document Records 8021, The Cofer Brothers - "Georgia Fiddle Bands, vol. 1" (Reissue). </font>
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