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CAN YOU DANCE A TOBACCO HILL. Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, Kentucky. D Major. Standard or ADae tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Can You Dance a Tobacco Hill?" is a reel from the playing of Owen 'Snake' Chapman. A possibly related, although distanced, tune is "Charlie MacLean's Strathspey," from the playing of fiddler Joe Peter MacLean (Rounder 7060, "Back of Boisdale").

Source for notated version: Owen "Snake" Chapman (1919-2003, Canada, Pike County, Ky., 1995), who learned the tune from his father, G.W. Chapman [Titon].

Printed sources: Titon (Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes), 2001; No. 22, p. 57.

Recorded sources: County 2714, Brad Leftwich - "Say Old Man" (1996). McDirlam Greene Productions, Bruce Greene & Hilary Dirlam - "Fiddler's Dozen" (1985). Rounder 0378, Owen "Snake" Chapman - "Up in Chapman's Hollow" (1996).

See also listing at:
Hear Ky. fiddler Bruce Greene's version at the Old Towne School of Folk Music [1]
Hear Owen Chapman's recording at Slippery Hill [2]
Hear/see Dave Bragger's fiddle tutorial on the tune on youtube.com [3]
See Pete Showman's standard notation versions (including a transcription of Dave Bragger's version) [4]