Annotation:Walls of Jericho (1)
X:1 T:Walls of Jericho [1] N:From the playing of fiddler Munsey Gaultney, learned from an 85 year old fiddler N:named William Hurley ("He was some kind of music teacher"), who learned the N:tune from his own father when he was a little boy. Gaultney, born in Healing N:Springs in 1906 was "a fiddler, writer, and all around character from Ashe County, N:North Carolina". Gaultney had an antiques store in Jefferson, N.C. N:The air is also called "Jack of Diamonds" and "Drunken Hiccoughs" M:C| L:1/8 R:Air N:AEAc# tuning N:"+" = pizzicato note. Drone low 'A' note on the 'G' string while N:doing the pizz. notes. D:Rounder 0058, Maunsey Gaultney - Old Originals, vol. 2" (1978) D:https://www.slippery-hill.com/content/walls-jericho Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:A SA>(AB/|c2) A2 A-c|B2 A2 A-B|c2A2 A-c|B2 A2 (AB)|c2 A2 (Ac)| B2 A2 (AB)|1A6-|A4:|2 A6||J[c4e4][c2e2]| [c2f2][c2e2][c2c2]|[c6e6]|:A,6|"+"c2"+"A2"+"E2| "+"c2"+"A2"+"E2| "+"c2"+"A2"+"E2|"+"c2"+"A2"+"E2|[M:1/2][EA][EA]|[M:3/4] [F2A2] DD DD |F2 D2 D>D| D2F2A2||1{B}c6:|2 {B}c4 B2|A6-|A4S||
WALLS OF JERICHO [1]. AKA and see "Drunken Hiccups (1)," "Frosty Morning (3)," "Rye Whiskey (1)." American, Listening Piece (3/4 time). USA; southwestern Va., western North Carolina. A Major. AEac# tuning (fiddle). AABB'. According to Tom Carter and Blanton Owen (1976) the sections of the tune were considered by source fiddler Munsey Gaultney ( b. 1906) [1] to represent scenes from Joshua's struggle at the walls of Jericho. Gaultney's piece has broad similarties to "Jack of Diamonds (3)," although it is a different tune. Sam McNiel of the Floyd County Ramblers also had a piece by this title in the same AEac# cross-tuning; a similar, but distinct tune.
A tune by this name was recorded for the Library of Congress by musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph from the playing of Ozarks Mountains fiddlers in the early 1940's. Arkansas fiddler Violet Hensley’s family played a tune called “Jericho” in the same cross-tuning, and Mark Wilson suggests both are versions of a common ancestor.
