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|f_annotation='''POSSUM’S TAIL IS BARE, THE.''' American, Reel and Song. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. This version of the tune is most often sourced to Braxton County, West Virginia, fiddler Melvin Wine (1909-2003). There is a general resemblance (as with a number of old-time tunes) to the prototypical "[[Bile Them Cabbage Down]]" and perhaps a cognate relationship. Despite the fact that most modern versions have been highly influenced by Wine's singing and playing, the tune appears to have been in circulation among West Virginia musicians prior to him; however, specific citations are wanting. | |f_annotation='''POSSUM’S TAIL IS BARE, THE.''' American, Reel and Song. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. This version of the tune is most often sourced to Braxton County, West Virginia, fiddler Melvin Wine (1909-2003), albeit from field recordings and personal tutelage, as he never recorded the tune on his commercially released issues. There is a general resemblance (as with a number of old-time tunes) to the prototypical "[[Bile Them Cabbage Down]]" and perhaps a cognate relationship. Despite the fact that most modern versions have been highly influenced by Wine's singing and playing, the tune appears to have been in circulation among West Virginia musicians prior to him; however, specific citations are wanting. | ||
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|f_printed_sources=Silberberg ('''Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern'''), 2002; p. 121. | |f_printed_sources=Silberberg ('''Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern'''), 2002; p. 121. | ||
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|f_see_also_listing=Hear Melvin Wine play the tune in a 1994 performance at Berea Digital Archives [http://dla.acaweb.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/berea/id/741/rec/26]<br> | |f_see_also_listing=Hear Melvin Wine play the tune in a 1994 performance at Berea Digital Archives [http://dla.acaweb.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/berea/id/741/rec/26] and at Digital Library of Appalachia [https://dla.acaweb.org/digital/collection/berea/id/741/]<br> | ||
Hear/See David Bragger's medium paced version on youtube.com [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf4JrZtLCU8]<br> | Hear/See David Bragger's medium paced version on youtube.com [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf4JrZtLCU8]<br> | ||
See standard notation transcription by Pete Showman [http://www.showman.org/Tunes/PossumsTailIsBare.pdf], taterjoes.com [http://taterjoes.com/fiddle/Possum's%20Tail%20Is%20Bare.pdf] and Don Borchelt [http://cdn2.hubspot.net/hub/13037/docs/the+possums+tail+is+bare.pdf?t=1450372041402] (also his banjo tab [http://www.banjr.com/pdf%20files/possums%20tail%20is%20bare.pdf])<br> | See standard notation transcription by Pete Showman [http://www.showman.org/Tunes/PossumsTailIsBare.pdf], taterjoes.com [http://taterjoes.com/fiddle/Possum's%20Tail%20Is%20Bare.pdf] and Don Borchelt [http://cdn2.hubspot.net/hub/13037/docs/the+possums+tail+is+bare.pdf?t=1450372041402] (also his banjo tab [http://www.banjr.com/pdf%20files/possums%20tail%20is%20bare.pdf])<br> | ||
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POSSUM’S TAIL IS BARE, THE. American, Reel and Song. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. This version of the tune is most often sourced to Braxton County, West Virginia, fiddler Melvin Wine (1909-2003), albeit from field recordings and personal tutelage, as he never recorded the tune on his commercially released issues. There is a general resemblance (as with a number of old-time tunes) to the prototypical "Bile Them Cabbage Down" and perhaps a cognate relationship. Despite the fact that most modern versions have been highly influenced by Wine's singing and playing, the tune appears to have been in circulation among West Virginia musicians prior to him; however, specific citations are wanting.
Squirrel’s got a bushy tail, rabbit’s got the hair,
The old coon’s tail has rings all around, but the possum’s tail is bare.
Oh the possum’s tail is bare, oh, the possum’s tail is bare,
The old coon’s tail has rings all around, but the possum’s tail is bare.
Take an old possum by the tail, then we’ll skin him on a rail,
Never ever more will he be seen, grinning at the moon.
Grinnnin’ at the moon, grinning at the moon,
Never ever more will he be seen, grinning at the moon. ... (Melvin Wine)
African-American collector Thomas Talley printed the following similar verses in dialect in his Negro Folk Rhymes: wise and otherwise (1922) under the title "Tails No. 7":
De coon's got a long ringed bushy tail,
De 'possum's tail is bare;
Dat rabbit hain't got no tail 'tall,
'Cep' a liddle bunch o' hair.
De gobbler's got a big fan tail,
De pattridge's tail is small;
Dat peacock's tail 's got great big eyes,
But dey don't see nothin' 'tall.
