Collecting folk music in 1936 and 1939
The music transcriptions by Harry Bolick and Steve Austin. About the notation ; Music collected in 1936 ; Music collected in 1939
Appendix B : Alvis Massengale
Appendix C : A 1936 field worker's account of a fiddle contest in Hazlehurst
Appendix D : Tunes in alternate tunings.
Music collected in 1936. All I wants a hogeye (Mittle Lee Adams) --
Hogeye ; Liza Jane ; Negro reel ; Old Mollie Hare ; Show piece ; Want to go to meeting (Charlie Adams) --
Billy in the lowground ; Cotton-Eyed Joe ; Couldn't hear nobody pray ; Forked deer ; Going away to Memphis, Dolly-O ; Old Rosin the beau ; Possum up a gum stump ; Pretty little girl in the county ; Running water ; Scrub waltz ; Soapsuds over the fence ; Sugar in the gourd ; Sweet milk and peaches ; Taters in the sandy land (Allen Alsop) --
Muddy road to Texas ; Flop eared mule ; Walking in my sleep (Dr. Ashley) --
I'm gwine keep my husband workin' if I can (Ella Mae Berry) --
Loving Nancy (Mr. Jim Henry Boley) --
Good bye Liza Jane (Mrs. W.J. Bonds) --
Carve dat possum (Ethel Bowen) --
Crap game ; Soldier's joy (Dalton Brantley) --
Old hen cackled on the pot ; Old Mollie Hare --
Run nigger, run (Mrs. M.B. Brister) --
Jewel waltz (C. Bronton) --
Black Eyed Susan ; John Butter and the fat ; Molly put the kettle on ; Old hen cackled ; Old Joe Clark (John Alexander Brown) --
Chicken reel waltz (Willie Campbell) --
Grasshopper on sweet tater vine (Babe Casey) --
Holland waltz (J.O. Casey) --
Hardy Smith ; Miss Cindy (Mr. R.C. Clifton) --
First time I saw Liza (Alice Cole) --
Indian eat the woodchuck ; Rabbit in a ditch (W.M. Collum) --
Go long Liza (Josephine Compton) --
Irish washerwoman ; Mollie bring the kettle ; Untitled (Devil's dream) (Mr. T.W. Cooper) --
I want to go to meeting (Mrs. Ruby Costello) --
Big Tom Bailey (C.M. Coursan) --
Going from the cottonfield (Narvell Covington) --
Fiddler's reel (Mrs. McCloud's) ; Mississippi sawyer ; Old Zip Coon (Sinclair Crocker) --
Go long Liza (Mrs. Willie Davis) --
Dutch waltz ; Eighth of January march ; Evening star waltz ; Jenny Lind polka ; Kiss waltz ; Rochester schottische ; Shoofly ; Sleepy waltz ; Soldier's joy (Charlie Edmundson) --
Buffalo gals (R.H. Ellis) --
Eighth of January waltz (Mr. P.F. Ezell) --
Old Zip Coon (Berlon Flynt) --
A hungry Confederate soldier (J.C. Foster) --
G & C schottische (Mrs. Maud Freeman) --
Big Bill's in jail, boys ; Whistling Rufus (Charley Goff) --
Old hen cackled (Jim Gooch) --
Liza Jane ; Spanish waltz (B.M. Guilette) --
Whoa mule (Mrs. R.L. Halberg) --
The Yankees are coming (Mrs. J.M.T. Hamilton) --
Buckeyed rabbit (Mrs. William W. Harrison) --
To Merileo (Mrs. J.A. Hickman) --
Plowman's drag (Dave Holland) --
Grand Bay schottische (Lee Holt)
Buffalo girl ; Lazy Kate (A.J. Howell) --
Georgia camp meeting (R.N. Hudspeth) --
Seaside polka (Mr. Jennings) --
Possum up a simmon tree (J.H. Johnson) --
Gee whiz (Rev. R.R. Keithley) --
Whistlin' Rufus (Mrs. J.C. King) --
Buffalo gals ; Good night waltz (Edward Kittrell) --
Paddy's welcome ; Untitled jig (Elmer Ladner) --
Merry widow waltz (Jerry Largo) --
Raggedy Ann (Annie Lee) --
Carve dat possum (Mrs. Louis Long) --
White cat, black cat (Mrs. R.S. Love) --
Fisher's hornpipe ; Goose girl waltz ; Irish washerwoman (Billie Mansfield and Chris Martin) --
Billy boy waltz ; Run, nigger, run (Mr. John McCartie) --
Nigger in the tater house ; Possum up the simmon tree (Henry McClatching) --
Her cheeks are like the cherry ; I'm gwine to my shanty ; Serenade (Mrs. Joe McCoy) --
My old coon dog (J.W. McDonough) --
Liza Jane (Vertis McFarland) --
Liza Jane (Everett Mitchell) --
Billie in the low ground ; Black Eyed Susan ; Eighth of January ; Fannie Logan ; Honey babe ; Lazy Kate ; Old kicking mule ; Old Mollie Hare ; Picayune butler (J.E. Moorman) --
Fisher's hornpipe (Mr. N. Odom) --
Turkey in the straw (Mrs. Della Patterson) --
Run Liza Jane (Mrs. Edwin Pease) --
I love somebody ; Rochester schottische (Mrs. Jeff Purcell) --
Soldier's joy (William E. Ray) --
Dan Tucker (Money musk) (Tom Reddit) --
I' ain't goin to leave her by herself (J.P. Reece) --
Roll them simelons (W.S. Robertson) --
Little dog ; Red wing (Richard Scovel) --
Darling I'm crazy 'bout you ; Gulfport ; Ladies fancy ; Mississippi sawyer ; Old Mollie Hare ; Sally Goodin ; Tom Tit ; Way late last night when peter went a-fishing ; White hat (J.E. Shoemaker) --
Flirtin' song (Mrs. J. Smith) --
Jaybird died ; Old hen cackled ; Possum up de simmon tree (Dr. Frank Smith) --
Washpot blues (Wilbur Snowden) --
Go long Liza (Mr. J.E. Tartt) --
Chicken in bread tray ; Horse shoe of the battle (E. Thomas) --
Swinging neath the red apple tree (Mrs. Bettie Thornton) --
Run, nigger, run (Mrs. A. Tynes) --
Coon ; Fisher's hornpipe ; Make me a bed on the floor ; Murilla's lesson ; Old Mollie Hare #1 ; Old Mollie Hare #2 ; Untitled (Bonny blue flag) ; Virginia reel (Unknown) --
Put your big foot right there ; Schattische #1 ; Schattische #2 (Mrs. Ben Walker) --
Smokey Moke (Mrs. L.A. Walker) --
Buffalo gals ; Do Johnny Booker, do (Ben Walker) --
Run nigger run (Mrs. Louis Walker Wallace) --
Leather breeches ; Mississippi sawyer (Mr. J.H. Wheeler) --
Bear Creek ; Bear Creek waltz (Miss Mae Belle Williams) --
Cindy waltz ; Cotton Eyed Joe ; Cotton field song ; Mississippi sawyer ; Polly put the kettle on ; Rickett's ; Scotch hornpipe ; Soldier's joy hornpipe (Rev. J.E. Williams) --
Johnny get your hair cut polka (Mrs. Josie Gautier Winterton) --
Joplin girl (Mrs. W.E. Wood).
Music collected in 1939. Big footed nigger in a sandy lot ; Bil Cheatum ; Farewell Mary Anne ; Old Molly Hare ; Purtiest little girl in the county ; Stoney Point (W.A. Bledsoe) --
Cindy ; Cindy : full version ; Dusty miller ; Froggy went a-courtin' ; Give the fiddler a dram ; Not a-gonna have no supper here tonight ; Rats in the meal barrel ; Sally Goodin ; Wolves a-howlin' (John Alexander Brown) --
Buck dancing Charlie ; Eighth of January ; Henry Holmes' holla ; Lost John ; Old blue sow ; Pearl Bryan ; Pickin' the devil's eye ; Poor little Mary settin' in the corner ; Possum and coon ; Where'd you get your whiskey (Canoy family) --
Arkansas traveler ; Bear Creek's up ; Black Eyed Susie ; Chicken pie ; Cindy ; Devil's dream ; Drunken hiccups ; Eighth of January ; Give the fiddler a dram ; Great Titanic ; Grey eagle ; Grub Springs ; How old are you my pretty little miss ; Mississippi sawyer ; Miss Sally at the party ; Oh ys, Mammy look at Sam ; Old Molly Hare ; Pass around the bottle ; Rabbit in the pea patch ; Raise big taters ; Run nigger run ; Sally Goodin ; Soldier's joy ; Texas bells ; Untitled (1950) ; Untitled (Twinkle, twinkle little star, 1950) ; Wagoner ; Walking in the parlor ; Wolves a-howlin' (W.E. Claunch) --
Hog-eye ; Old Morgan (Mrs. Birmah Hill Grissom) --
Arkansas traveler ; Billy in the lowground ; Black Eyed Susie ; Bonaparte's retreat ; Buffalo girl ; Down yonder ; Eighth of January ; Farewell whiskey ; Going up to Hamburg ; Grub Springs ; Leather britches ; Little Danville girl ; Long eared mule ; Old Miss Sally ; Pretty little girl all around town ; Scott no. 2 ; Soldier's joy ; Tishomingo County blues (2 versions) ; Tom and Jerry ; Up the road (John Hatcher) --
Cindy Jane ; Corn stalk fiddle ; Going to the wedding ; Hell after yearlings ; Indian war whoop ; Little boy went a-courtin' ; Rye straw ; Want to go to meeting and I got no shoes (Frank T. Kittrell) --
Alabama waltz ; Big eyed rabbit ; Drunken hiccups ; Fisher's hornpipe ; Hard road to Texas ; Jones County ; Little Willie ; My little Dony ; My old dog trailing up a squirrel ; Rock candy ; Sally-O ; Steamboat (Charles Long) --
Mary Blain (Theodosia Long) --
Old field rabbit (Jim Meyers) --
Eighth of January ; Great big yam taters ; Leather britches ; Liza Jane ; Mississippi sawyer ; Puncheon floor (Hardy C. Sharp) --
Arkansas traveler ; Bragg's retreat ; Calico ; Chippy get your hair cut ; Christmas time in the morning ; Circus piece ; Cold frosty morning ; Devil's dream ; Fiddle piece ; Fisher's hornpipe ; Haste to the wedding ; Hogeye ; Indian eat a woodpecker ; Joke on the puppy ; Leather britches ; Mississippi sawyer ; Pound cake and sugar ; Raker's hornpipe ; Run, nigger, run ; Soldier's joy ; Texas wagon ; Throw the soap suds over in the corner of the fence ; Tom & Jerry ; Untitled jig (Stephen Benjamin Tucker) --
Railroad Bill ; Liza Jane (Horace Kinard) --
Black Eyed Susie ; Cripple Creek ; Cross eyed gopher ; Going on down town ; Humpbacked mule ; Liza Jane ; Miss Cindy ; Oh, my little darlin' ; Old Dan Tucker ; Old Joe Clark ; Roll on the ground ; Rove, Riley, rove ; Run nigger, run ; Sally Goodin ; Shake that little foot, Sally Ann ; Uncle Bud ; Want a little water, Johnny? ; Who will shoe your pretty little foot/Mississippi Valley waltz (Thaddeus C. Willingham).
Appendix B. Bilbo rag ; Fisher's hornpipe ; Goodnight waltz ; Sebastapol (Alvis Massengale).
