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MISS BROWN [1]. Old Time, Breakdown. USA, Mississippi. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. See related tunes "Cotton Eyed Joe (2)" and "Cousin Sally Brown (2)." The Carter brothers sang this ditty to the tune:

Never get it up, never get it down,
Never get it up for old Miss Brown.

Source for notated version: Carter Brothers and Son (Miss.) [Phillips].

Printed sources: Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1), 1994; p. 152.

Recorded sources: County 528, Carter Brothers and Son "Mississippi Breakdown: Traditional Fiddle Music of Mississippi."




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