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'''JOHNSON'S OLD GREY MULE'''. Old-Time, Song Tune. USA, north Georgia. A comic song. | '''JOHNSON'S OLD GREY MULE'''. Old-Time, Song Tune. USA, north Georgia. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. A comic song by Thomas Westendorf, written in 1884. The lyric (from the Georgia Yellow Hammers) begins: | ||
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''Johnson had an old grey mule,''<Br> | |||
''His name was Simon Slick;''<Br> | |||
''He’d roll his eyes and switch his tail,''<Br> | |||
''Mmh, how that mule would kick.''<Br> | |||
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''Well rode him down to the foot of the hill,''<Br> | |||
''He hooked him to his cart;''<Br> | |||
''He loved that mule and that mule loved him,''<Br> | |||
''With all his muley heart.''<Br> | |||
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Revision as of 23:23, 16 March 2012
Tune properties and standard notation
JOHNSON'S OLD GREY MULE. Old-Time, Song Tune. USA, north Georgia. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. A comic song by Thomas Westendorf, written in 1884. The lyric (from the Georgia Yellow Hammers) begins:
Johnson had an old grey mule,
His name was Simon Slick;
He’d roll his eyes and switch his tail,
Mmh, how that mule would kick.
Well rode him down to the foot of the hill,
He hooked him to his cart;
He loved that mule and that mule loved him,
With all his muley heart.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Kuntz (Ragged But Right), 1987; pp. 223-224.
Recorded sources: Starday SLP 235, Curly Fox (1963). Rounder 1032, Georgian Yellow Hammers - "The Moonshine Hollow Band" (1979. Orig. rec. 1927). Victor 20550 (78 RPM), Georgia Yellow Hammers (1927).