Annotation:Rocky Road to Dublin (8)
X:1 % T:Rocky Road to Dublin [8] S:Allen Sisson (1873-1951, Fannin County, north Georgia) D:Edison Ed 51559 (78 RPM), 1925 M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel Z:Transcribed by Andy Kuntz K:Ador A,2A,2 A,B,CE|GEG2 EDCE|A,CA,G, A,CDE|EA A2 A2 [^ce][ce]:| |:eded ^c4|ABAG E2 ED|CDEF GE{A}GE|CDEF G2 (cd| e2)e2{c}d2 cB|ABAG E2 {G}ED|CDEG A^cBA|^cAAB (A2A2):| A2a2 abag|efga gedg|e2a2 abag|eded ^cAAB| A2a2 abag|eded gee2|gbag|e2d2|^cABd cA A2 AA||
"Rocky Road to Dublin [8]" was recorded by Fannon County, north Georgia, fiddler Allan Sisson in 1925 at the Edison studios in East Orange, New Jersey. Sisson worked for the DSC&J mines , a mining and smelting company, located in nearby Isabella (Copperhill), Tennesse. In 1914, at the age of 42, he became Section Foreman on the mine railroad. Sisson was the Tennessee State Champion fiddler in 1921. a similar version was commercially recorded by Asheville, North Carolina, fiddler Osey Helton, for Broadway Records, c. 1930, and for the Library of Congress in a field recording in 1940.