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OLD COW DIED IN THE FORKS OF THE BRANCH. Old-Time, Breakdown. USA; northern Alabama, North Carolina, Kentucky. The title (and also a verse) has been a "floater" in the old-time tradition, and refers to the death of a cow at the confluence of a stream. In the repertory of Tuscaloosa, Alabama fiddler E.D. "Monkey" Brown (1897-1972). County 788, Clyde Davenport (Monticello, Ky.) - "Clydeoscope: Rare and Beautiful Tunes from the Cumberland Plateau" (1986).

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