Annotation:Run Rabbit Run

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X:1 T:Run Rabbit Run N:From the playing of fiddler Ward Jarvis, recorded in the field by David Brose. N:Jarvis was born in 1894 in Calhoun County, W.Va., and moed in the 1940's to N:Athens County, Ohio, to work in the timber industry. C:Clarence "Curly" Herdman (1918-1968, W.Va.) M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel D:Field Recorder Collective FHR402 - "Wade Jarvis" (2004). D:https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/run-rabbit-run Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:G ef|g2g2 g2ef|gage d2e-f|g2 g2 bgag |eaab agef| g2g2g2 ef|gage d2[d2g2]-|[d2g2]ef gage |dcBA G2-G2| [B3g3]a [B2g2]ef|gage d2e-f|g2 g2 bgag |eaab agef| g2g2g2 ef|gage d2[d4g4]|d2 ef g2g2 |dcBA G2-G2|| D-EG2 +slide+B2G2|dcBc BAGE|D=FAB cBc2|+slide++slide+[e2e2] dc BAG2| G,B,DE G2Bc|dcBc BAGE|D=FAB cAF-D|G2G2G2| [G,2D2]G2B2G2|dcBc B2GE|D=FAB cB c2|+slide+[e2e2]dc Bc G2| G,B,DF G2[G,2G2]|dcBc BAGE|D=FAB cAF-D|G2[GB][GA][G2B2]||

RUN, RABBIT, RUN. Old-Time, Breakdown (cut time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. The second strain is irregular. Composed by the late West Virginia fiddler Clarence "Curly" Herdman. The tune was renamed "Run, Nygarrd, Run" on a 1994 tape of Clyde Curley and other Pacific Northwest musicians, in honor of ex-Seattle musician Scott Nygarrd. It is thus a play on the title "Run, Nigger, Run."

Additional notes

Source for notated version: - Vermont fiddler Pete Sutherland [Phillips].

Printed sources : - Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1), 1994; p. 205.

Recorded sources: -

See also listing at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]