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| |f_track=Go To The Devil & Shake Yourself.mp3
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| |f_pdf=Go to the Devil and Shake Yourself.pdf
| | |f_tune_annotation_title= https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Farmer's_Reel_(1) > |
| |f_artwork=Isle-of-Manhattoes-folktale.jpg
| | |f_annotation='''FARMER'S REEL [1]'''. AKA - "The Farmer." AKA and see "[[Boys from Scart (The)]]," "[[Coquette (1)]]," "[[Delaware Hornpipe]]," "[[Ottawa Valley Reel (1) (The)]]." Canadian, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The second strain is cognate with the first three alternate titles, and both strains are cognate with "[[Ottawa Valley Reel (1) (The)]]." See note for "[[annotation:Ottawa Valley Reel (1) (The)|Ottawa Valley Reel]]" for more. |
| |f_tune_name=Go to the Devil and Shake Yourself
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| |f_track_title=Go_to_the_Devil_and_Shake_Yourself_(1)
| | |f_printed_sources=Corfield ('''Tunes from New Brunswick'''), 2024; p. 41. Messer ('''Way Down East'''), 1948; No. 14. Messer ('''Anthology of Favorite Fiddle Tunes'''), 1980; p. 55. |
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| |f_played_by=[https://soundcloud.com/christopher-hedge Christopher Hedge]
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| |f_notes= The isle of Manhattoes and nearby- Folktales: The Rival Fiddlers
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| |f_caption=The jig is mentioned in a legend related by Charles M. Skinner (1852-1907) in his book The Isle of Manhattoes and Nearby.
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| |f_source=[https://soundcloud.com/christopher-hedge/03-go-to-the-devil-shake Soundcloud] | |
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| |f_article=[[Go_to_the_Devil_and_Shake_Yourself_(1) | '''Go to the Devil and Shake Yourself''']]
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| The jig is mentioned in a legend related by Charles M. Skinner (1852-1907) in his book The Isle of Manhattoes and Nearby. It is essentially the same story adapted by Charlie Daniel in his song "Devil Went Down to Georgia" about a private fiddle contest between the devil and a human fiddler. In Skinner's tale the protagonist is a black fiddler named Joost, returning home from playing a wedding on Long Island. He meets a stranger along the road, with a fiddle tucked under his arm, and the two begin to play. It quickly escalates into a contest:
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| ''"Where the devil did you come from?"'' - asked Joost.<br>
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| The other smiled.<br>
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| ''"And how did you come to know that music?"'' - Joost pursued.<br>
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| ''"Oh, I've known that tune for years,"'' - was the reply,. ''"It's called 'The Devil's joy at Sabbath Breaking."''<br>
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| ''"You're a liar!"'' - cried the negro. <br>
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| The stranger bowed and burst into a roar of laughter. <br>
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| ''"A liar!"'' - repeated Joost, ''"for I made up that music this very minute."''<br> | |
| ''"Yet you notice that I could follow when you played." ''<br> | |
| ''"Humph! Yes, you can follow." ''<br>
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| ''"And I can lead, too. Do you know the tune 'Go to the Devil and Shake Yourself?'"''<br>
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| ''"Yes; but I play second to nobody." ''<br> | |
| </blockquote>
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| Joost finally bests him at dawn by playing the hymn "Now behold, at dawn of day, Pious Dutchmen sing and pray." With the concession "''Well, that beats the devil''" the stranger strikes his foot against a rock and disappears in an explosion.
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X: 1
T:Farmer's Reel [1], The
R:Reel
M:4/4
L:1/8
Z:Transcribed by Bruce Osborne
K:G
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BGBd BGBd|gfge dBGB|ecdB cABG|D2G2 G2:|
|:g2|dgBg dgBg|dgba gfed|ea^ca ea^ca|e2ag fed^c|
dgBg dgBg|dgba gfed|faba gfef|g2g2 g2:|
|:B>c|dBgB dgBg|ecgc egce|dBgB dgBd|AGFE D2Bc|
dBgB dgBd|ecgc egce|dBGB cAFA|G2B2 G2:||
Additional notes
Printed sources : - Corfield (Tunes from New Brunswick), 2024; p. 41. Messer (Way Down East), 1948; No. 14. Messer (Anthology of Favorite Fiddle Tunes), 1980; p. 55.
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