Annotation:Give Me Chaw of Tobacco
Tune properties and standard notation
GIVE ME CHAW OF TOBACCO. AKA - "Gimmie Chaw T'baccer." AKA and see "Bear Creek's Up." Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, Mississippi. A variation of "Sally Goodin'" in G Major, recorded by the Mississippi group Carter Brothers and Son, consist of a father, uncle and son Jimmy Carter on guitar. Three couplets were sung to the mostly instrumental recording, partly indecipherable except for one:
Had a little dog and his name was Rover,
When he died, he died all over
See also the variant by W.E. Claunch, "Bear Creeks Up."
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Recorded sources: Document DOCD-8009, Carter Brothers and Son - "Mississippi String Bands, vol. 1, 1928-1935" (1997). Marimac 9110, Carter Brothers & Son - "It'll Never Happen Again: Old Time String Bands, vol. 1" (1986). Vocalion 5295 (78 RPM), Carter Bros. & Son (1928).