Annotation:I Get My Whiskey from Rockingham

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I GET MY WHISKEY FROM ROCKINGHAM. AKA and see “Rockingham Cindy,” "Rocky Road Cindy," "Way Down in Rockingham." Old-Time, Breakdown. "Rockingham Cindy" is a related tune. The tune was originally recorded by Georgia fiddler Earl Johnson [1](1886-1965), born in Gwinnett County. He was a contemporary of Gid Tanner and John Carson. Lyrics begin:

Where'd you get your whiskey, where'd you get your dram?
I got it from a little girl way down in Rockingham.

Refrain
Rocky Road Cindy, rocky road to town,
Rocky Road Cindy, way down in Rockingham.

I went down to Rockingham, I did not go to stay,
I fell in love with a pretty girl and I could not get away.

Lips as red as a red rose, her hair was huckleberry brown,
The sweetest girl I ever saw, way down in Rockingham.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources:

Recorded sources: County 507, Earl Johnson & His Clodhoppers - "Old-Time Fiddle Classics." County 543, Earl Johnson and His Clodhoppers - "Red Hot Breakdown."

See also listing at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [2]



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