Annotation:Pateroller Song (The)

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{{TuneAnnotation |f_tune_annotation_title= https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Pateroller_Song_(The) > |f_annotation=PATEROLLER (SONG) [2], THE. AKA and see "Pateroller'll Catch You," "Run Boy Run," "Run Johnny Run," "Run Nigger Run," "Run Smoke Run." American, Reel 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. |f_source_for_notated_version=Pete Sutherland [Phillips]. |f_printed_sources= Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1), 1994; p. 181. |f_recorded_sources=Tradition TLP 1007, Hobart Smith - "Instrumental Music of the Southern Appalachians" (1956). |f_see_also_listing=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]
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