Annotation:Carolina Rattlesnake

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X:1 T:Carolina Rattlesnake M:C| L:1/8 Q:"Quick" R:Reel N:AEae tuning (fiddle) S:Lon Jordan (c. 1876-?, Farmington, Arkansas) N:From a 1941 field recording by Vance Randolph F:https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/carolina-rattlesnake Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:A +slide+[A2A2][Ac][Ac] [A2A2][Ac][AA]|[B2e2][de][Be] [B2e2][de][de]|[A2A2][Ac][AA] [E2A2]Bc|dcBA GE3| [A2A2][Ac][AA] [A2A2][Ac][AA]|[B2e2][de][Be] [B2e2][de][de]|[A2A2][Ac][AA] [E2A2]FG|AFEE CA,3|| +slide+[e3e3][ee]- [e2e2] [d2e2]-|[e2e2]ec B2A2|+slide+[e3e3][ee]- [e2e2] fg|afed cA3| +slide+[e3e3][ee]- [e2e2] ([d2e2]-|[ee][^de][ee])[ce] [B2e2][Be][Be]|ABc[de]- [e2e2]fg|afed cA3||

CAROLINA RATTLESNAKE. American, Reel (cut time). USA, Arkansas. A Major. AEae tuning (fiddle). AB. The tune was recorded for the Library of Congress by musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph (1892-1980) from Ozarks Mountains fiddlers in the early 1940's, particularly from Lon Jordan, whom he recorded in Farmington, Arkansas, in 1941. The rattlesnake was featured on a South Carolina flag of the American Revolution, the famous "Don't Treat on Me" or Gadsden flag. The name Carolina is actually a Latinized reworking (formed from an adjective with a completely acceptable feminization to agree with terra) of the name Charles, and was the name designated by Charles I of England for this colony (Matthews, 1972).

Additional notes

Source for notated version: - Lon Jordan (born c. 1876).

Printed sources : -

Recorded sources: - Library of Congress AFS 05325 A01, Lon Jordan (1941). Voyager VRCD-354, Hart & Blech - "Build Me a Boat."

See also listing at:
Hear Lon Jordan's 1941 field recording at Slippery Hill [1]

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