Old-Time Tune List

There are often regional or personal variations in OT music between how one person plays a tune vs. another, or how a book might have it noted (if you can even find it in a book -- hence, some frustration by music readers to follow a tune we're playing). Chording may also vary between players. Just remember, there is no one way to play a tune -- just different ways. Sometimes, we have no written music for the OT tunes we play, since most OT music is learned by ear. And -- some OT tunes are "crooked," not "even" in the number of measures that make up the tune (ex: 15 or 17 measures, instead of 16) -- where the majority of fiddle tunes are 8, 16, 32, 48 or so measures long. These take a little more work, but are fun to do..

The later "half" of the Fiddlers' Tour sesssion (any time after 9:45 or 10pm) tends to lean more toward Old-timey music and up tempos. Below is a list of Old-timey tunes the Tour enjoys playing. We will continue to add tunes to the list, for it is by no means, complete (and the late-night fiddlers have a lot more OT tunes they play, than are listed here).

PLEASE NOTE: the variation we play may not be the same as what is listed in the books mentioned below, but the books may give you something to work with -- the melody should be close enough:

• Angeline the Baker (FF 22)
• Barlow Knife (FF 35.
• Big Scioty (FF 41)
• Billy in the Lowground (FF 42)
• Billy Wilson (PC2 24)
• Black-eyed Susie (Susan) (FF 47)
• Blackberry Blossom (FF 47)
• Boatman
(PC2 27)
• Bonaparte's Retreat (FF 52)
• Booth Shot Lincoln (PC2 29)
• Breaking Up Christmas (FF 55)
• Cherokee Shuffle (FF 65 -- two parts)
• Cherokee Shuffle (three part -- not in book)
• Cluck Old Hen (FF 70)
• Cold Frosty Morning (Also -- Frosty Morning) (FF 114)
• Colored Aristocracy (FF 72)
• Cowboy's Dream (PC2 43)
• Cripple Creek (FF 79)
• Cumberland Gap (FF 82)
• Devil's Dream (FF 85)
• Drunken Hiccups (FF 92)
• Dubuque (FF 93)
• Ducks on the Millpond (FF 93)
• Ebenezer (FF 98)
• Eighth of January (FF 99)
• Flow-Eared Mule (FF 108)
• Hobart's Transformation (FF 136)
• Jeff City (PC2 98)
• Johnny, Johnny Don't Get Drunk (FF 115)
• Juliann Johnson (PC 116)
• Kitchen Girl (FF 160)
• Little Rabbit (FF 171)
• Liza Jane (FF 172)
• Morpeth Rant (FF 197)
• Muddy Roads (FF 198)
• Old Joe Clark (FF 207)
• Pleasant Street (M. Jarboe, hand out)
• Sail Away Ladies (FF 242)
• Sara Armstrong's Tune (PC2 17)
• Snowbird (no ref.)
• Soldier's Joy (FF 263)
• Spotted Pony
• Waterbound (Stay All Night)
• Year of Jubilo (FF 294)
• Yellow Barber (PC2 228)
• Yellow Rose of Texas & Crooked Yellow Rose of Texas