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Cousin Sally Brown (For Additional Lyrics see: “Grey Cat on a Tennessee Farm)
Old-Time, Breakdown- Southern Appalachians (major), North Carolina Va. (minor version)
CATEGORY: Fiddle and Instrumental Tunes DATE: Early 1900's
RECORDING INFO: Horseflies (Tompkins County Horsefiles). Chokers and Flies, Rounder 0213, LP (1985), cut# 10; Kimble Family. Pine Knots School Rowdies, Marimac 9037, Cas (1992), cut# 2 (Cousin Sally Brown); Parish, Roscoe. Old Time Way, Heritage (Galax) 070, LP (1986), cut# 18 (Cousin Sally Brown); Pine River Boys with Maybelle. Outback, Heritage (Galax) 003 (III), LP (1974), cut#B.06; Powell, Dirk. If I Go Ten Thousand Miles, Rounder 0384, CD (1996), cut# 5 (Cousin Sally Brown); Roan Mountain Hilltoppers. Down Home, Roan Mountain, CD (2000/1983), cut#17 (Old Cat Died); Rutherford, Ernest; and the Gold Hill Band. Old Cap'n Rabbit, Heritage (Galax) 080, Cas (1989), cut# 8 (Cousin Sally Brown; Watson, Willard. More Clawhammer Banjo, County 717, LP (1969), cut# 14 (Cousin Sally Brown)
OTHER NAMES: "Miss Brown" ‘Yellow Cat,” “Grey Cat On A Tennessee Farm”
SOURCES: Hobbs, Frank. Fiddle Book, Oak, Bk (1967), p132; Kuntz, Fiddler's Companion, http://www.ceolas.org/tunes/fc;
NOTES: "D Major. Standard. AABB." (Kuntz, Fiddler's Companion, http://www.ceolas.org/tunes/fc). “Cousin Sally Brown” is part of the “Yellow Cat” group of songs which includes Dave Macon’s “Grey Cat On A Tennessee Farm.” It is also related melodically to "Cotton Eyed Joe." For additional lyrics to the D major version see: “Grey Cat on a Tennessee Farm.”
The North Carolina version (Rounder CD 0383, Mike Seegar and Paul Brown - "Down in North Carolina.") is a different version in Am. See Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), Vol. 1, 1994; pg. 58 for the minor version that is also in repertory of the Watson family (Doc Watson) and is played in the Galax area (Shelor Family. Eight Miles Apart, Heritage (Galax) 022, LP (1979), cut# 12).
These lyrics are sometimes sung to the 'B' part:
*Where you goin' my cousin Sally Brown?
Where you goin' my cousin Sally Brown?
*From Kuntz, Fiddler's Companion, http://www.ceolas.org/tunes/fc.
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