Annotation:Fiddle Up
X:1 T:Fiddle Up N:Transcribed by John Hartford from the playing of fiddler Jess Young, N:Chatanooga, Tenn. M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Reel B:Stephen F. Davis - Devil's Box, vol. 23, No. 3, Fall 1993 (p. 35) Z:abc's AK/Fiddler's Companion K:G d/G/|Bd/A/ Bd/A/|B/d/e- ed/A/|Bd/A/ Bd/A/|B/d/(e e)d|g/a/g/e/ dB/c/| dB AG|+slide+d2 (e2|e)g/e/ f/e/ d-|1[M:2/8]d:|2 g2=f2||:ee ^dd| e/^d/e/d/ e/=d/c/A/|GA c<e|GA c<e|gg gg|1 g/=f/e d2| e/^d/e/d/ e/d/d/d/|e/G/A c2:|2 g=f/e/ d>e|ge f/ed/ |c3||
FIDDLE UP. American, Country Blues. Recorded by Chattanooga fiddler Jesse Young for Columbia in the late 1920's, and may have been written by him. It has also been called an adaptation of Iriving Berlin's "Ragtime Violin." The tune is similar to the original "Memphis Blues."
