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'''FIDDLER'S DRAM'''. AKA and see "[[Give the Fiddler a Dram]]." | |f_annotation='''FIDDLER'S DRAM'''. AKA - "Fiddler a Dram." AKA and see "[[Give the Fiddler a Dram (1)]]." American, Reel (cut time). USA; central West Virginia, Kentucky, northeast Alabama. G Major/Mixolydian (Spadaro): A Mixolydian (Milliner & Koken). Standard, AEae (James Crase) or DGdg (Harvey Sampson) tunings (fiddle). AAB (Milliner & Koken): AABB (Spadaro). The tune, widespread over the upland South, was a standard one in the square dance fiddler repertoire as asserted by A.B. Moore in '''History of Alabama''' (1934) {Cauthen, 1990}. Words were interchangeable with a few other song/tunes, including "[[Dance all Night with a Bottle in Your Hand]]." Kentucky fiddler James Crase, recorded by folklorist John Cohen in 1959, sang the following to the first strain of the tune: | ||
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''Dance all night with a bottle in the hand,''<br> | |||
''Just before day give the fiddler a dram.''<br> | |||
''Fiddler a dram, fiddler a dram,''<br> | |||
''Way before day give the fiddler a dram.''<br> | |||
<br> | <br> | ||
''Old Jawbone and Jinny come along,''<br> | |||
''In comes Sally with her big boots on."<br> | |||
<br> | <br> | ||
< | ''Left my jawbone on the fence,''<br> | ||
< | ''Ain't seen nothing of a jawbone since.''<br> | ||
'' | ''Old jawbone, Jinny come along,''<br> | ||
''In come Sally with her big boots on.''<br> | |||
<br> | <br> | ||
<br> | ''Four been years since I been gone,''<br> | ||
< | ''Pretty little girl with the red dress on.''<br> | ||
< | ''She put it off, I put it on,''<br> | ||
''In comes Sally with her big boots on.''<br> | |||
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|f_source_for_notated_version=James Crase (Bear Branch, Leslie County, east Kentucky) [Milliner & Koken]. Crase was recorded in the field in 1959 by John Cohen. | |||
|f_printed_sources=Milliner & Koken ('''Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes'''), 2011; p. 193. Spadaro ('''10 Cents a Dance'''), 1980; p. 42. | |||
|f_recorded_sources=Augusta Heritage Recordings AHR-004C, Harvey Sampson and the Big Possum String Band – "Flat Foot in the Ashes" (1986/1994. Learned by Calhoun County, W.Va., fiddler Harvey Sampson from his father). | |||
Fantasy 24711, "The Holy Modal Rounders." | |||
Folkways SF CD 40077, James Crase – "Mountain Music of Kentucky" (1996. Originally released in 1960). | |||
<br> | |f_see_also_listing=Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/g04.htm#Givthfia]<br> | ||
<br> | Hear James Crase's version at Slippery-Hill [https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/fiddler-dram]<br> | ||
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Latest revision as of 18:21, 19 October 2021
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FIDDLER'S DRAM. AKA - "Fiddler a Dram." AKA and see "Give the Fiddler a Dram (1)." American, Reel (cut time). USA; central West Virginia, Kentucky, northeast Alabama. G Major/Mixolydian (Spadaro): A Mixolydian (Milliner & Koken). Standard, AEae (James Crase) or DGdg (Harvey Sampson) tunings (fiddle). AAB (Milliner & Koken): AABB (Spadaro). The tune, widespread over the upland South, was a standard one in the square dance fiddler repertoire as asserted by A.B. Moore in History of Alabama (1934) {Cauthen, 1990}. Words were interchangeable with a few other song/tunes, including "Dance all Night with a Bottle in Your Hand." Kentucky fiddler James Crase, recorded by folklorist John Cohen in 1959, sang the following to the first strain of the tune:
Dance all night with a bottle in the hand,
Just before day give the fiddler a dram.
Fiddler a dram, fiddler a dram,
Way before day give the fiddler a dram.
Old Jawbone and Jinny come along,
In comes Sally with her big boots on."
Left my jawbone on the fence,
Ain't seen nothing of a jawbone since.
Old jawbone, Jinny come along,
In come Sally with her big boots on.
Four been years since I been gone,
Pretty little girl with the red dress on.
She put it off, I put it on,
In comes Sally with her big boots on.
