Annotation:Old Yaller Hound

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OLD YALLER HOUN' . Old-Time, Breakdown. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The first part of this tune appears to be shared with "Always Welcome" and Bayard's "Darkey's Dream." Ira Ford (1940) printed the following verse with the tune:

Old yaller houn's barkin' treed, up the holler,
It's old mister 'possum, I'll bet half a dollar.
Fetch on the ax, boys, we'll see pretty soon,
He's worth half a dollar if it's old zipp coon. .... (Ford)

...and printed this story to go with it:

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Ford (Traditional Music in America), 1940; p. 61.

Recorded sources:

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