Annotation:Old Yeller Dog

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OLD YELLER DOG (COME TROTTIN' THROUGH THE MEETING HOUSE). AKA and see "Old Grey Mare," "Old Blind Dog." Old-Time, Breakdown. G Major (usually): F Major. Standard or FCfc (Rayna Gellert) tuning (fiddle). AABB. Rayna Gellert plays this tune in F, cross-tuned, although she notes that it is normally played in standard tuning in the key of G. See also Earl Johnson's "Old Grey Mare Kicking Out of the Wilderness." Source Charlie Acuff had the tune from his grandfather, also named Charlie Acuff, from whom the young Charlie learned to fiddle. Apparently, people allowing their dogs to accompany them in places of worship in the South was not uncommon at one time.

Source for notated version: Charlie Acuff [Phillips].

Printed sources: Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1), 1994; p. 176.

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