Annotation:Chickens Don't Roost too High
Tune properties and standard notation
CHICKENS DON'T ROOST TOO HIGH. Old-Time, Country Blues. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. A popular tune in the South in the early decades of the 20th century. It was, for example, in the repertoire of north Georgia fiddler Lowe Stokes. Recorded by several Southern groups during the 78 RPM era, including the Dixie String Band, composed of north Georgia musicians Arthur Tanner (banjo), Earl Johnson (fiddle) and Lee Henderson (guitar), who recorded the tune in New York around 1925.
Source for notated version: Leonard Keith [Phillips].
Printed source: Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), vol. 2, 1995; p. 30.