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| '''BREAKING UP CHRISTMAS''' (See "Old Breaking Up Christmas"). Old-Time, Breakdown. USA; western North Carolina, western Va. A Major. AEae or DGdg tunings (fiddle). AABB. "A popular tune in the Galax/Meadows of Dan/Mt. Airy triangle," say Tom Carter and Blanton Owen (1978), who quote 82 yr. old Meadows of Dan fiddler Lawrence Bolt on the origin of the title:
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| ''Through this country here, they'd go from house to house almost -''
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| ''have a dance at one house, then go off to the next one the following ''
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| ''night and all such as that. The week before Christmas and the week ''
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| ''after, that's when the big time was. About a two-week period, usually ''
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| ''winding up about New Year. I wasn't into any of this, but used to ''
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| ''laugh about it. They'd play a tune called BREAKIN' UP CHRISTMAS, ''
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| ''that was the last dance they'd have on Christmas, they'd have Wallace ''
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| ''Spanger play BREAKIN' UP CHRISTMAS. There's an old feller by ''
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| ''the name of Bozwell, he'd cry every time.''
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| Mike Yates (2002) says that the tune is a Galax, Va., area tune, traditionally only played at dances held on January 6th, the date of 'old Christmas' (see note for "Old Christmas Morning").
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| There are verses associated with the tune, which go:
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| ''Hoo-ray Jake and Hoo-ray John,''<br>
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| ''Breakin' Up Christmas all night long.''<br>
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| ''Way back yonder a long time ago''<br>
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| ''The old folks danced the do-si-do''<br>
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| ''Way down yonder alongside the creek''<br>
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| ''I seen Santy Claus washin' his feet.''<br>
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| ''Santa Claus come, done and gone,''<br>
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| ''Breaking up Chrismas right along.''<br>
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| ''Source for notated version'': the Fuzzy Mountain String Band (N.C.) [Brody].
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| ''Printed source:'' Brody ('''Fiddler's Fakebook'''), 1983; p. 55.
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| ''Recorded sources:'' County 713, Tommy Jarrell. County 723, Cockerham, Jarrell and Jenkins- "Back Home in the Blue Ridge." County 790, Leftwich & Higginbotham - "No One to Bring Home Tonight" (1984). County CD 2702, "Tommy & Fred." Davis Unlimited 33002, Norman Edmonds (southwest Va.). Front Hall 017, Micheal and McCreesh- "Dance, Like a Wave of the Sea" (1978) {learned from Tommy Jarrell}. Kicking Mule 213, Fred Cockerham- "Southern Clawhammer Banjo." Rounder 0057, The Kimble Family- "Old Originals, Vol. I." Rounder 0035, The Fuzzy Mountain String Band- "Summer Oaks and Porch" (1973. Learned from Tommy Jarrell, Mt. Airy, N.C.). Rounder 0192, John McCutcheon- "Winter Solstice" (1984).
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