Annotation:High Dad in the Morning
Tune properties and standard notation
HIGH DAD IN THE MORNING. Old-Time, Bluegrass; Breakdown. USA. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. The tune starts on an E minor chord, the relative minor. The tune has its origins in American black-face minstrelsy (see Hans Nathan's Dan Emmett and the Rise of Early Negro Minstrelsy).
Source for notated version: Kenny Baker [Brody, Phillips].
Printed sources: Brody (Fiddler's Fakebook), 1983; p. 135. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), vol. 1, 1994; p. 112.
Recorded sources: County 719, Kenny Baker- "Portrait of a Bluegrass Fiddler" (1968. Learned from a tape of Doug Dillard's father, a Missouri musician). Rounder 0241, The Chicken Chokers - "Shoot Your Radio" (1987). Rounder 0442, John Hartford - "Hamilton Ironworks" (2001) Takoma D-1064, Norman Blake- "Directions."
See also listing at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]