Annotation:Sally's got Mud between Her Toes

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X:1 % T:Sallie's got Mud between Her Toes S:Pat Kingery (Ky.) M:C| L:1/8 N:A lot of variability in Kingery’s tune; he never plays N:it the same way twice. D:1976 field recording by Bruce Greene Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:D +slide+[A2A2][A2A2][EA][FA] [D2A2] |[F2A2][A2A2][A4A4]|B2 AA FEDE|FEDF {D}E2[EA][EA]| F2[F2A2]BAAA|[E2A2]-[F2A2][F4A4]|BABc BADF|E2D2 D4| F2A2 A3A|B2 A4AA|F2D2 DFDF|E2DF E4| F4+slide+[A2A2][A2A2]|B2F2 A4|[A2A2][A2A2][FA][EA][DA][FA]|[E2A2][D2A2][D4A4]|| |:d2d2 BAFA|d2d2 ([de][df])-[d2f2]-|[d4f4]|a3e d2d2|fe d2 [de][d3f3]| a3d fedf|e2d2([de][d3f3])|(3efed2 dB A2|B2d2d4:| D2 FG A2D2|F2 AA A4|F2A2 BA D2|F2 AF E3F| D2 F2 AF D2|F2 A2 A4|c2 cA AF D2|E2D2 D4| D3D B,2A,2|D2D2+slide+F4|D2 DD B,2A,A,|(B,2 [D2D2])[D4D4]||

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SALLY'S GOT MUD BETWEEN HER TOES. AKA - "Sal's got Mud between Her Toes," "Sallie's got Mud between Her Toes." American, Reel (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB: ABC (Silberberg). The tune is sourced to southern Kentucky fiddler Pat Kingery, whom collector and fiddler Bruce Greene recorded in the field. On that recording Kingery did not sing words, but later told Greene that these words were sung to the tune:

Here comes Sally down the road,
She's got mud between her toes,
Though her face is pretty as a pear,
She's got a yellow ribbon in her hair.

Musician, instrument-maker and songwriter Bob Coltman used Kingery's words as the first stanza and added a chorus and more verses:

CHORUS:
Sal, Sal, don’t be slow,
You love me, you know it’s so,
All I ask, the good Lord knows,
Shake that mud from ‘tween your toes.

Here she comes and yon she goes,
She don’t wear no fancy clothes,
She don’t carry no long stem rose,
She’s got mud between her toes.

Asked her would she marry me,
She says, "Not immediately,"
But I noticed her with a hose
Washin' mud from ‘tween her toes.