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Tune Annotations:	'''DID YOU EVER SEE THE/A DEVIL, UNCLE JOE'''. AKA - "Did You Ever Go to Meetin', Uncle Joe?" AKA and see "(Miss) McCloud's Reel," "Miss McLeod's/MacLeod's Reel [1]," "[[Hop High Ladies]] (the Cake's All Dough)," "[[Hop Light Ladies]]," "[[Cake's All Dough (The)]]," "[[Gigue américaine]]," "[[Green Mountain (1)]]," "[[Walk Jaw Bone (1)]]," "[[Billy Boy (2)]]." American, Air and Reel. USA; southwest Va., eastern Ky. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. A version of a wide-spread reel originally from the British Isles, called "[[Miss McLeod's Reel (1)]]." There are many floating verses attached to this melody in American tradition. A play-party verse was sung by Fiddling Powers in his 1927 recording (compare with Dan Tate's "Cindy"): <blockquote> ''Railroad, steamboat,''<br> ''River and canal;''<br> ''Hadn't been for Kaiser Bill,''<br> ''There never wouldn't have been no hell.''<br> </blockquote> The earliest recording of this tune appears to be by [[Wikipedia:Henry_Whitter]] (1892-1941), called "Hop Light Ladies and Shortenin' Bread" (OKeh 40064, 1924). The tune also was recorded as an instrumental in the 78 RPM era by Madison County, Ky., fiddler [[Wikipedia:Doc_Roberts]] (1897-1978) and others.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources:	Phillips ('''Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1'''), 1994; p. 71.
Recorded sources:	Conqueror 8136 (78 RPM), Doc Roberts w. Asa Martin (1931). OKeh 45268 (78 RPM) {1927}, Fiddlin' Cowan Powers 1877-1952? (Russell County, southwest Va.). Rounder Records 0058, John Patterson - "Old Originals, vol. 2" (1978).
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