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'''PATEROLLER (SONG) [2], THE.''' AKA and see "[[Pateroller'll Catch You]]," "[[Run Boy Run]]," "[[Run Johnny Run]]," "[[Run Nigger Run]]," "[[Run Smoke Run]]." Old Time, Breakdown and Song Tune. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The song is reported to be about pre-Civil War times when plantation owners hired men to patrol for runaway slaves or slaves out after curfew without a pass. The tune was in the repertiore of the John Lusk Band, an African-American string band from Cumberland Plateau region of Ky./Tenn under the title "Pateroller'll Catch You." Hobart Smith's version is similar to "[[Salt River (2)]]," "[[Salt Creek]]," and, a bit more distantly, to "[[Lonesome John]]." See also related tune "[[Rattlesnake Bit the Baby]]." | '''PATEROLLER (SONG) [2], THE.''' AKA and see "[[Pateroller'll Catch You]]," "[[Run Boy Run]]," "[[Run Johnny Run]]," "[[Run Nigger Run]]," "[[Run Smoke Run]]." Old Time, Breakdown and Song Tune. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The song is reported to be about pre-Civil War times when plantation owners hired men to patrol for runaway slaves or slaves out after curfew without a pass. The tune was in the repertiore of the John Lusk Band, an African-American string band from Cumberland Plateau region of Ky./Tenn under the title "Pateroller'll Catch You." Hobart Smith's version is similar to "[[Salt River (2)]]," "[[Salt Creek]]," and, a bit more distantly, to "[[Lonesome John]]." See also related tune "[[Rattlesnake Bit the Baby]]." | ||
[[File:rideforliberty.jpg|300px|thumb|left|A Ride for Liberty: The Fugitive Slaves. Eastman Johnson, 1862. | [[File:rideforliberty.jpg|300px|thumb|left|A Ride for Liberty: The Fugitive Slaves. Eastman Johnson, 1862. | ||
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''Source for notated version'': Pete Sutherland [Phillips]. | ''Source for notated version'': Pete Sutherland [Phillips]. | ||
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''Printed sources'': Phillips ('''Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1'''), 1994; p. 181. | ''Printed sources'': Phillips ('''Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1'''), 1994; p. 181. | ||
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''Recorded sources'': <font color=teal>Tradition TLP 1007, Hobart Smith - "Instrumental Music of the Southern Appalachians" (1956). </font> | ''Recorded sources'': <font color=teal>Tradition TLP 1007, Hobart Smith - "Instrumental Music of the Southern Appalachians" (1956). </font> | ||
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See also listing at:<br> | See also listing at:<br> | ||
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/folkindex/r11.htm#Runboru]<br> | Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/folkindex/r11.htm#Runboru]<br> | ||
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PATEROLLER (SONG) [2], THE. AKA and see "Pateroller'll Catch You," "Run Boy Run," "Run Johnny Run," "Run Nigger Run," "Run Smoke Run." Old Time, Breakdown and Song Tune. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The song is reported to be about pre-Civil War times when plantation owners hired men to patrol for runaway slaves or slaves out after curfew without a pass. The tune was in the repertiore of the John Lusk Band, an African-American string band from Cumberland Plateau region of Ky./Tenn under the title "Pateroller'll Catch You." Hobart Smith's version is similar to "Salt River (2)," "Salt Creek," and, a bit more distantly, to "Lonesome John." See also related tune "Rattlesnake Bit the Baby."
Source for notated version: Pete Sutherland [Phillips].
Printed sources: Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1), 1994; p. 181.
Recorded sources: Tradition TLP 1007, Hobart Smith - "Instrumental Music of the Southern Appalachians" (1956).
See also listing at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]
Hear/see a banjo version of the Smith's breakdown played on youtube.com [2]
See Bluegrass Messengers site for three versions [3][4][5]