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'''The ladies [i.e. British soldiers] had gathered about the fire, and, naturally, the thing for me to do was to lose myself behind their'' | ''''The ladies [i.e. British soldiers] had gathered about the fire, and, naturally, the thing for me to do was to lose myself behind their'' | ||
''skirts. As I dashed into the huddle I gave the old hoe-down cry of the dancers to the fiddler: "Smoke Behind the Clouds!" How'' | ''skirts. As I dashed into the huddle I gave the old hoe-down cry of the dancers to the fiddler: "Smoke Behind the Clouds!" How'' | ||
''they screamed! How they scattered!''' ... [p. 97]. | ''they screamed! How they scattered!''' ... [p. 97]. | ||
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X:1 T:Smoke behind the Clouds N:From the playing of fiddler Jess Young (southeast Tenn.) M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel Q:"Quick" D:Silvertone 4011 (78 RPM), Homer Davenport & the Young Brothers (1925) D:https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/smoke-behind-clouds Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:G g2g2g3B|g2g2gaga|g2d2 B2G2|[A3a3][Aa] [A2a2] D2-| Daa-b a2g2|f2d2f2d2 |fgfe dcBA|G2G6:| b4g4|dedc +slide+B3G|A2G2E2G2|c4 [E4c4]| a3b a2g2|f3g f2[d2f2] |fgfe dcBA|G2 G4|| |:D2-|D2G2 GA G2|GGG2 G3D-|D-G2AG2G2|A3A A2D2-| DFAF A2A2| ABAF A2Dd |fgfe dcBA|G2G4:|
SMOKE BEHIND THE CLOUDS. AKA and see "Smoke above the Clouds." American, Reel (cut time). USA; Ky., Tenn. A "genuine regional favorite of southeastern Tenn. fiddlers, showing up in the repertoires of Lowe Stokes, Bob Douglas, and even a black string band from the north end of the (Tenn./Ky. Cumberland) valley headed by John Lusk" (Charles Wolfe, The Devil's Box, Dec. 1981, vol. 15, No. 4, p. 55). Lusk's string band included Murph Gribble on banjo and Albert York on guitar, and was recorded in Campaign, Tenn., in Sept., 1946, for the Library of Congress by Margaret Mayo, Stu Jamieson and Simon. Chattanooga, Tenn., area coal miner and fiddler biography:Jess Young recorded the tune in 1925 with his brother Alvin on guitar and Homer Davenport on banjo. The Ozarks collected "Sam Taylor's Tune" has similarities, as does "Julianne Flanagan."
The tune, or, at least, the title for a fiddle tune, predates its early 20th century popularity, for it is mentioned in a book by George Morgan called John Littlejohn of J.: Being in Particular an Account of His Remarkable Entanglement with the King's Intrigues against George Washington (1896), which purports to be a memoir of a burly American soldier during the Revolutionary War. It was written a decade or so after the Centennial of that conflict. The book is written with considerable hyperbole, and one breathles battle passage mentions the tune title:
''The ladies [i.e. British soldiers] had gathered about the fire, and, naturally, the thing for me to do was to lose myself behind their
skirts. As I dashed into the huddle I gave the old hoe-down cry of the dancers to the fiddler: "Smoke Behind the Clouds!" How
they screamed! How they scattered!' ... [p. 97].
