Annotation:If I had a Nickel
X:1 T:If I had a Nickel T:Gippy Get Your Hair Cut N:From the playing of fiddler Melvin Wine (1909-2003, Braxton County, N:central West Virginia) on a Berea College performance video. N:Wine plays with a pronounced backbeat. M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel Q:"Fast" D:https://soundarchives.berea.edu/items/show/7676 Z:Andrew Kuntz K:G (3DEF |GABc d2 dB |d2dB d2 dd|GABc d2 Bc|dBAB G2A2| GABc d2Bc|d2.[d2e2] dBA2|GGAG E-GDD|GGA[G,G]- [G,2G2]:| |:(_B2|=B)GAG EGDG|JEGDG JEGD2|GB-AG EGDE|GBA[G,G]- [G,2G2]:| P:A' {DEF}G-|GABc d2Bc|dde2 d2B-A|GABc ddBc|ddBA [G,2G2]D2| GABc ddBc|dded dcB-A|GB-AG EG DG|GBA[G,G]- [G,2G2]:|
IF I HAD A NICKEL. AKA and see "Gippy Get Your Hair Cut." American, Reel (cut time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "If I had a Nickel" is Braxton County, West Virginia, fiddler Melvin Wine's (1909-2003) version of the tune usually call "Johnny/Gippy Get Your Hair Cut," recorded in the 78 RPM era by the Kessingers Brothers (also from West Virginia). Wine introduced the tune in performance with the couplet:
If I had a nickel, and I had a dime,
Gippy get your hair cut, short like mine.
