Annotation:Hell on the Wabash (3)
Tune properties and standard notation
HELL ON THE WABASH [3]. Old-Time, Breakdown. G Major (Ford): D Major (McMahon). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. It is on Missouri fiddler Charlie Walden's list of '100 essential Missouri fiddle tunes'. Missouri fiddler Pete McMahan incorporates the high strain of "Rocky Mountain Goat" in his version of "Hell on the Wabash."
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Ford (Traditional Music in America), 1940; p. 65.
Recorded sources: Missouri State Old Time Fiddlers Association 001, Pete McMahan - "Ozark Mountain Waltz." Art Rosenbaum - "The Art of the Mountain Banjo."