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'''JIMMY SUTTON'''. AKA - "[[Old Buck Ram]]," "[[Old Jimmy Sutton]]." Old-Time, Breakdown. A Mixolydian/D Major. AEae or ADae tuning (fiddle). AB. The song/tune was collected from both Black and White sources, but the 'old-time' fiddle tune is closely associated with Blue Ridge regional musicians such as G.B Grayson (1887-1930), Fred Cockerham (1805-1980) and Tommy Jarrell (1901-1985). It was also in the repertoire of Grayson County, Virginia, clawhammer banjo player Vester Jones. As "Old Jimmy Sutton" the song/tune was in the repertoire of Grayson & Whitter who recorded it in the early 20th century (played in the key of G). These verses have been collected (sometimes a bleat or 'Baaa' is voiced at the end of the line): | |f_annotation='''JIMMY SUTTON'''. AKA - "[[Old Buck Ram]]," "[[Old Jimmy Sutton]]." Old-Time, Breakdown. A Mixolydian/D Major. AEae or ADae tuning (fiddle). AB. The song/tune was collected from both Black and White sources, but the 'old-time' fiddle tune is closely associated with Blue Ridge regional musicians such as G.B Grayson (1887-1930), Fred Cockerham (1805-1980) and Tommy Jarrell (1901-1985). It was also in the repertoire of Grayson County, Virginia, clawhammer banjo player Vester Jones. As "Old Jimmy Sutton" the song/tune was in the repertoire of Grayson & Whitter who recorded it in the early 20th century (played in the key of G). These verses have been collected (sometimes a bleat or 'Baaa' is voiced at the end of the line): | ||
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''Get out a rock as big as a button''<br> | ''Get out a rock as big as a button''<br> | ||
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''If you can't dance that, you can't dance nothin'''<br> | ''If you can't dance that, you can't dance nothin'''<br> | ||
''And I wouldn't give a chaw to the old Jimmie Sutton '' (sometimes used as a chorus)<br> | ''And I wouldn't give a chaw to the old Jimmie Sutton '' (sometimes used as a chorus) | ||
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''Bill took the gun, Bill went a huntin''<br> | ''Bill took the gun, Bill went a huntin''<br> | ||
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''An' de sheep spli 'is lip wid a big broad grin.''<br> | ''An' de sheep spli 'is lip wid a big broad grin.''<br> | ||
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|f_source_for_notated_version=Highwoods String Band (Ithaca, New York) [Brody]; Judy Hyman (Ithaca, N.Y.) [Phillips]. | |||
|f_printed_sources=Brody (Fiddler's Fakebook), 1983; p. 206 ("Old Jimmy Sutton"). Phillips ('''Traditional American Fiddle Tunes'''), 1994; p. 125. | |||
|f_recorded_sources=Biograph 6003, "The Original Bogtrotters" (1968). Folkways FS-3811, Vester Jones. Rounder 0045, Highwoods String Band- "Dance All Night." Gennett Ge 6436 (78 RPM), G.B. Grayson & Henry Whitter (1928). Tennvale 003, Pete Parish- "Clawhammer Banjo." Vester Ward - "Traditional Music From Grayson & Carrol Counties." | |||
|f_see_also_listing=Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/o05.htm#Oldjisu]<br> | |||
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/o05.htm#Oldjisu]<br> | |||
Hear the tune played by Thorton and Emily Spencer (Mouth of Wilson, Virginia) at the Digital Library of Appalachia [http://www.aca-dla.org/cgi-bin/showfile.exe?CISOROOT=/Warren43&CISOPTR=3302&filename=3303.mp3] [http://www.aca-dla.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/Warren43&CISOPTR=3302&CISOBOX=1&REC=1]<br> | Hear the tune played by Thorton and Emily Spencer (Mouth of Wilson, Virginia) at the Digital Library of Appalachia [http://www.aca-dla.org/cgi-bin/showfile.exe?CISOROOT=/Warren43&CISOPTR=3302&filename=3303.mp3] [http://www.aca-dla.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/Warren43&CISOPTR=3302&CISOBOX=1&REC=1]<br> | ||
Hear the tune by the Ballard Branch Bogtrotters on youtube.com [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pio-RcL2Tbo]<br> | Hear the tune by the Ballard Branch Bogtrotters on youtube.com [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pio-RcL2Tbo]<br> | ||
Hear G.B. Grayson's 78 RPM recording [http://www.oldtownschool.org/fiddle/fun/oldjimmysutton8612.mp3]<br> | Hear G.B. Grayson's 78 RPM recording [http://www.oldtownschool.org/fiddle/fun/oldjimmysutton8612.mp3]<br> | ||
Hear a slow learning version from the Old Town School of Folk Music [http://www.oldtownschool.org/fiddle/fun/oldjimmysutton6550.mp3]<br> | Hear a slow learning version from the Old Town School of Folk Music [http://www.oldtownschool.org/fiddle/fun/oldjimmysutton6550.mp3]<br> | ||
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Revision as of 03:37, 7 November 2021
X:1 T:Old Jimmy Sutton N:From the playing of fiddler G.B. Grayson (1887-1930) M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel N:On the recording the first strain is played numerous times before going on N:to the second strain, which is played one time. N:Vocals and dance calls on the first strain. D:Gennett Ge 6436 (78 RPM), Grayson & Whitter (1928) D:County CO CD 3517, "The Recordings of Grayson & Whitter" (1928) D:https://www.slippery-hill.com/content/old-jimmy-sutton-3 D:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLx5KI3kpuM Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:D d2 f-ed2f-e |d2[df]f ecec|ddf-ed2f-e|ddfd Acec| d2 f-ed2f-e|ddfd Acec|d2 f-e dd[df]d|[d2g2][d2f2] ecec:| f-a-aa- a2(fg|a2) af ec e2|((3e/f/g/a-a)a- a2ef| Jg2Jf2 ece[ce]| ea-ae a2((3efg|a2)e[Ae] c2e2|[A4a4] Jc'4|a4 f-g2fe||
JIMMY SUTTON. AKA - "Old Buck Ram," "Old Jimmy Sutton." Old-Time, Breakdown. A Mixolydian/D Major. AEae or ADae tuning (fiddle). AB. The song/tune was collected from both Black and White sources, but the 'old-time' fiddle tune is closely associated with Blue Ridge regional musicians such as G.B Grayson (1887-1930), Fred Cockerham (1805-1980) and Tommy Jarrell (1901-1985). It was also in the repertoire of Grayson County, Virginia, clawhammer banjo player Vester Jones. As "Old Jimmy Sutton" the song/tune was in the repertoire of Grayson & Whitter who recorded it in the early 20th century (played in the key of G). These verses have been collected (sometimes a bleat or 'Baaa' is voiced at the end of the line):
Get out a rock as big as a button
Kill Jimmy Sutton as dead as mutton.
I like Sal and she likes chicken.
I'll keep Sal, all the time pickin'.
Sheep met a billy-goat going to pasture.
Sheep said "Goat, can't you go a little faster?"
Sheep fell down and skinned his chin
And, great God almighty, how the billy-goat grinned.
I like Sal and she likes mutton
And I hate to lose to old Jimmy Sutton.
If you can't dance that, you can't dance nothin'
And I wouldn't give a chaw to the old Jimmie Sutton (sometimes used as a chorus)
Bill took the gun, Bill went a huntin
BAM! went the gun and down fell a mutton.
Some of the verses are floating. Stacy Phillips points out that the lines-
Sheep met a billy-goat going to pasture.
Sheep said "Goat, can't you go a little faster?
were sung by Tommy Duncan on Texas fiddler Bob Wills' version of "Sally Goodin'," and were followed by--
Sheep fell down, goat rolled over,
Goat got up with a mouth full of clover.
North Carolina fiddler Tommy Jarrell sang:
Sheep, sheep, sheep and mutton,
If you can't dance that you can't dance nothing.
And a baa!
Baa! Old Jimmy Sutton.
We'll kill us a sheep and eat the mutton,
Save the tail for old Jimmy Sutton.
And a baa!
Baa! Old Jimmy Sutton.
A version of the song was collected by Thomas Talley and was printed in his Negro Folk Rhymes (1922) under the title "Sheep and Goat":
Sheep an' goat gwine to de paster;
Say de goat to de sheep: "Cain't you walk a liddle faster?"
De sheep says: "I cain't, I'se a liddle too full."
Den de goat say: "You can wid my ho'ns in yo wool."
But de goat fall down an' skin 'is shin
An' de sheep spli 'is lip wid a big broad grin.
