Annotation:Take Your Foot Out of the Mud
X:1 T:Take Your Foot out of the Mud (and put it in the Sand) M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel D:Victor V-40117 (78 RPM), McLaughlin's Old Time Melody Makers (1930) N:The third part, in the key of 'C', was played twice in the middle of the piece, N:followed by a return to the first two parts. Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:G BA|GEDE D2G2|GABG A2BA|GEDE D2GG|FGAF G2BA| GEDE D2G2-|GABG A2BA|GEDE D2GG|FGAF G2:| c|dBGB dBGB|dBGB d2Bc|dBGB dBGB|cA2BA2Bc| dB2c dBGB|dB2c d2Bc|dBGB dBGB|cA2B G2 || K:C |:c2AG EDCD|E2 ED E2CD|EA-AG A2AG|EAAG A2AB| c2AG EDCD|EAGE C2CD|FA-AAd2A2|B2A2G2 AB| c2AG EDCD|EAGE C2CD|EA-AG A2AG|EAAG A2AB| c2c2d2e2|c2A2GGAB| cAGE C2D2| C6 (3GAB:|
TAKE YOUR FOOT OUT OF THE MUD (AND PUT IT IN THE SAND). American, Reel (cut time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Take your foot out of the mud (and put it in the sand)" was first recorded in a raucous, blazingly fast version by Dr. Humphrey Bate and His Possum Hunters in Atlanta, Ga., in March, 1928, featuring calls for a square dance. A more sedate version, with a singing break, was recorded two years later by McLaughlin's Old Time Melody Makers in Memphis. The tune was recorded for the Library of Congress by musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph from the playing of Ozarks Mountains fiddlers in the early 1940's. The Barney Rude sang on the McLaughlin's group recording:
The group consisted of fiddle, piano, guitar, banjo and double bass, and McLaughlin was the name of the group's banjo player, although little more is known of the band.
