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Dance All Night With a Bottle in Your Hand
Traditional Old-Time, Breakdown. USA: West Virginia, Virginia, Western North Carolina, North Georgia, Alabama, Nebraska.
ARTIST: Lyrics from Highwoods String Band;
CATEGORY: Fiddle and Instrumental Tunes. DATE: 1900’s.
RECORDING INFO: Ashby, John; and the Free State Ramblers. Old Virginia Fiddling, County 727, LP, cut# 10. Boys from Wildcat Hollow. Day in the Mountains, County 512, LP (196?), cut# 5d (Fiddlin' Bootleggers). Carter Brothers & Son. Echoes of the Ozarks, Vol. 1, County 518, LP (1977), cut# 4 (Give the Fiddler a Dram). Connor, Sam. Appalachia, The Old Traditions, Vol. 2, Home Made Music LP-002, LP (1982), cut# 11. Cousin Emmy (Cynthia May Carver). New Lost City Ramblers with Cousin Emmy, Folkways FTS 31015, LP (1968), cut# 7. Dutch Cove Old Time String Band. Sycamore Tea, June Appal JA 0023, LP, cut# 6. Edwards, Kenneth; & the Sunny Mountain Boys. 37th Old-Annual Old-Time Fiddlers Convention, Folkways FA 2434, LP (1962), cut# 11. Gellert, Dan; and Brad Leftwich. Moment in Time, Marimac 9038, Cas (1993), cut#B.03. Highwoods String Band. Dance All Night, Rounder 0045, LP (1975?), cut# 1. Jarrell, Tommy. Pickin' on Tommy's Porch, County 778, LP (198?), cut# 6. Jones, Casey. Rocky Road to Jordan, MSOTFA 102, Cas (1992), cut# 16. Kessinger, Clark. Clark Kessinger, Fiddler, Folkways FA 2336, LP (1966), cut# 13. Lundy Family. Back in Galax Again, Heritage (Galax) 105, Cas (1992), cut#A.02. Mainer's Mountaineers (J. E. Mainer's Mountaineers). J. E. Mainer & the Mountaineers. Vol 20. 20 Old-Time Favorites, Rural Rhythm RC-250, Cas (1988), cut#A.04 (Fill Me Up a Bottle). Marion, Carlie. Going Across the River to Hear my Banjo Ring, Marimac 9018, Cas (1988), cut# 13. McCarroll, James (Jimmy). Tennessee: The Folk Heritage, Vol. 2. The Mountains, Tennessee Folklore Soc. TFS-103, LP (198?), cut# 15 (Fiddler A Dram). Stripling Brothers. Lost Child, County 401C, Cas (1971), cut#B.03. Tanner, Gordon; and Joe Miller. Skillet Licker Music, 1955-1991. The Tanner Legacy, Global Village C 310, Cas (1992), cut#A.12 (Give the Fiddler a Dram) Alcazar Dance Series ALC-202, Sandy Bradley - "Potluck and Dance Tonite!" (1979). Columbia 15200 (78 RPM), Gid Tanner and the Skillet Lickers. County 401, "The Stripling Brothers" (Ala.). County 727, John Ashby (Va.) - "Old Virginia Fiddling." County 733, Clark Kessinger (Va.) - "The Legend of Clark Kessinger." County 778, Tommy Jarrell (N.C.) - "Pickin' on Tommy's Porch" (1984?). Folkways FA 2336, Clark Kessinger- "Fiddler." Gennett 6734 (78 RPM), Tweedy Brothers (Harry, George, Charles, from W.Va. who played twin fiddles and piano) {1928}. Marimac 9038, Dan Gellert & Brad Leftwich -"A Moment in Time." Rounder 0045, Highwoods String Band - "Dance All Night." Rounder Records, Gid Tanner and His Skillet Lickers - "The Kickapoo Medecine Show" (appears as the 2nd and 3rd tune of Kickapoo Medecine Show skit). Vocalation 5395 (78 RPM), Stripling Brothers (Ala.) {1929}.
OTHER NAMES: "Danced All Night;” "Danced All Night With a Bottle in My Hand," "Give the Fiddler a Dram," "Give Me a Bottle of I Don't Care What."
RELATED TO: “Who's Been Here Since I've Been Gone;” “Swamp Cat Rag;” “Don't Mind the Weather so the Wind Don't Blow;” “Railroad Through the Rocky Mountains;” “Jawbone”
SOURCES: Kenny Hall’s Music Book – Mel Bay Pub.; Eller, Lawrence. Folk Visions & Voices. Traditional Music & Song in North Georgia, University of Georgia, Bk (1983), p 20. Highwoods String Band (Ithica, N.Y.) [Brody, Kuntz]; Bob Walters (Burt County, Nebraska) [Christeson]; Lawrence Eller (Towns County, Ga.) [Rosenbaum]; Clark Kessinger (W.Va.) [Phillips]. Brody (Fiddler's Fakebook), 1983; pg. 84. Christeson (Old Time Fiddlers Repertory, Vol. 1), 1973; pg. 104. Kuntz (Ragged but Right), 1987; pg. 305-306. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), Vol. 1, 1994; pg. 97 (appears as "Give the Fiddler a Dram"). Rosenbaum (Folk Visions and Voices: Traditional Music and Song in North Georgia), 1989; pg. 20; Kuntz, Fiddler's Companion, http://www.ceolas.org/tunes/fc;
NOTES: "G Major. Standard. AABB (Brody, Christeson, Phillips) or AABAACCB (Kuntz, Brody). Guthrie Meade thinks the tune has some relation to "Buffalo Gals." Rosenbaum (1989) points out that the recording by Gid Tanner and the Skillet Lickers for Columbia was very influential, especially in Georgia (in fact, the melody is known as a north Georgia tune). His source, Georgian Lawrence Eller, learned the tune/song from family tradition and Rosenberg concludes (apparently on the strength of the floating verse about hanging Jefferson Davis) from this that the lyrics bespeak Unionist loyalties in parts of the southern Appalachians." (Kuntz, Fiddler's Companion, http://www.ceolas.org/tunes/fc).
LYRICS:
Dance all night with a bottle in my hand,
Bottle in my hand, with a bottle in my hand
Dance all night with a bottle in my hand,
Jes for a damn Give the fiddler a dram
I left that jawbone sitting on the fence
I ain’t seen nothing of the jawbone since
Walk jawbone, kitty get along
In comes Sally with the big boots on
Who’s been here since I been gone?
Pretty little girl with the red dress on
She took it off, and I put it on
In comes Sally with the big boots on
Dance all night with a bottle in my hand,
Bottle in my hand with a bottle in my hand
Dance all night with a bottle in my hand,
Jes for a damn give the fiddler a dram
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