Annotation:Little Home to Go to (2)
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LITTLE HOME TO GO TO [2]. Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, Missouri. A Minor. AEae tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. A second tune of the same name in Missouri fiddler Bob Holt's repertory, perhaps related to "Little Home to Go to (1)." According to Holt's source, Doc Gentry, the tune arrived in Missouri before the turn of the 20th century from an Arkansas fiddler named Bob Wood. Wood was murdered on a saloon porch in Missouri by a man in a jealous rage over a woman [Beisswenger & McCann].
Source for notated version: Bob Holt (1930-2004, Ava, Missouri), learned from rural M.D. and fiddler Doc Gentry (Douglas County, Mo.) [Beisswenger & McCann].
Printed sources: Beisswenger & McCann (Ozarks Fiddle Music), 2008; p. 63.
Recorded sources: Rounder Records CD -532, Bob Holt - "Got a Little Home to Go to" (1998).
See also listing at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]
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