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OLD COON DOG [1]. AKA - "Coon Dog." AKA and see "Davy Dugger," "Engine on a Mogull," "Shoot that Turkey Buzzard," "Greasy String (1)," "Higher Up the Monkey Goes." Old-Time, Breakdown. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Silberberg): AABB (Phillips).

Source for notated version: Seattle fiddler Vivian Williams, who learned the tune from a 78 RPM recording by Fiddlin' Kate [Phillips, Silberberg].

Printed sources: Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), vol. 1, 1994; p. 169. Silberberg (Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern), 2002; p. 109.

Recorded sources: Rounder 0380, Roger Cooper - "Going Back to Old Kentucky" (1990. Appears as "Coon Dog"). Voyager 340, Jim Herd - "Old Time Ozark Fiddling."

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