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POOR JOHNNY'S GONE TO (THE) WAR. AKA and see "Tommy Love," "John Lover('s Gone]]," "John's Lover is Gone," "John the Lover." Old-Time, Breakdown. USA; southwestern Va, western North Carolina. D Major. AABBCC ('C' part added by Malcolm Owen). This southwestern Virginia tune has currency under several titles. It was in the repertory of fiddlers Kahle Brewer and Taylor Kimble under this title, and, as “Poor Little Johnny Has Gone to the War,” from Bertie Mae Dickins of Ennice, North Carolina. According to one source, the melody goes back to the time of Confederate cavalryman General Jeb Stuart during the Civil War (Kinney Rorrer).

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Recorded sources: County CD-2711, Kirk Sutphin - "Old Roots and New Branches" (1994). Rounder 0010, "The Fuzzy Mountain String Band" (1972. Learned from Taylor Kimble.).

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