Annotation:Hoe the Corn Moses
Tune properties and standard notation
HOE THE CORN MOSES. AKA and see "Razors in the Air," "Moses Hoe Your Corn." Old-Time, Breakdown. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Silberberg): AA'AA' BB (Phillips). The title comes from the chorus of the minstrel-style song "Razors in the Air," originally a three-part melody by singer-banjoist Harry C. Browne and His Peerless Quartet, who recorded it for Columbia prior to 1930. Vernon Dalhart also recorded an early version of the song. As a tune it was paired to two parts, modified and played by Marion Slaughter, the Otis Brothers (fingering in the key of 'G' but tuned down to E), Major Contay and others.
Source for notated version: Paul Elliot [Phillips]; Greg Canote (Seattle) [Silberberg].
Printed sources: Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1), 1994; p. 113. Silberberg (Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern), 2002; p. 103 (appears as "Moses Hoe Your Corn").
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