Annotation:Lost Indian (2)
X:1 T:Lost Indian [2] T:Gone Indian M:2/4 L:1/8 S:Howdy Forrester, learned from Uncle John Wills; originally transcribed by John Hartford D:Stephen F. Davis - Devil's Box, vol. 22, No. 4, Winter 1988 (p. 50) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:A c/B/|AF E/F/A/c/|(e4|e3) c/B/|AF E/F/A|(c2 c>)d|c3 c/B/|AF/A/ EF/E/|(A4| A3) c/A/|A F/C/ EC/B,/|A,/C/E/F/ Ec/B/|AF/C/ EC|E/F/A/B/ AA/B/|AF/A/ EC| F/EF/ EE/F/|AE/F/ EC|E/F/A/B/ Ac/B/|AF/C/ E/F/A/c/|(e4-|e4-|e4-|e3) c/B/| AF E/F/A|(c4-|c4-|c4-|c3) c/B/|AF E/A/B|A2 A>B|A3 B/c/|AG/A/ Ee/c/| A/F/E/F/ Ec/B/|AF/A/ E/C/A,/C/|E/F/A/B/ Ae/c/|AF/A/ EC|E/F/E/F/ EA/B/| AF/A/ EC|E/F/A/B/ Ac/B/|AF/A/ EC/B,/|A,/C/E/F/ Ec/B/|AF/C/ E/F/A/B/| AF/A/ E:|
LOST INDIAN [2]. AKA and see "Gone Indian." Old-Time, Bluegrass; Breakdown. A Major. Standard tuning or AEac# (fiddle). One part (Devil's Box): AA'BB'CC' (Beisswenger & McCann). It was customary to vocalize a holler or yelp with the two held notes in this tune, in imitation of an Indian 'whoop'. Bob Holt told Mark Wilson that when John Wills (a champion fiddler and struggling cotton farmer from Texas) played the tune and yelped, "it just about curled your hair." Wills, the father of renowned western swing fiddler Bob Wills, played in the radio as a guest with his son's band, and also broadcast on his own.
