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PECKERWOOD. Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, Kentucky. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The reel is a regional Cumberland Plateau tune. Source Davenport (b. 1921) learned it from his father when he was a boy. Bawdy lyrics are occasionally sung to the tune.

Source for notated version: Clyde Davenport (Monticello, Wayne County, Ky.) [Titon].

Printed sources: Titon (Old Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes), 2001; No. 122, p. 149.

Recorded sources: Berea College Appalachian Center AC002, Clyde Davenport – “Puncheon Camps” (1992).