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Davy Dugger/ Old Davey Dugger/ Shoot that Turkey Buzzard/Turkey Buzzard
Traditional Old‑Time, Breakdown. USA; east Tennessee, east Kentucky, north Georgia, North Carolina
ARTIST: From "The Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore; the folklore of North Carolina, collected by Dr. Frank C. Brown during the years 1912 to 1943, in collaboration with the North Carolina Folklore Society"
CATEGORY: Fiddle and Instrumental Tunes
DATE: Old melody; Lyrics from 1800’s;
RECORDING INFO: Davie Dugger [Me IV-E 9]
Rm - Johnny Come Along ; Greasy String ; Shoot the Turkey Buzzard
Cooper, Roger. Going Back to Old Kentucky, Rounder 0380, CD (1996), trk# 22 (Coon Dog)
Davenport, Clyde. Titon, Jeff Todd / Old Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes, Kentucky, Bk/ (2001), p 66/# 32 [1990/03/31]
Hughes, Delbert. Home Recordings., Augusta Heritage AHR 015, Cas (1994), trk# A.05
Wright, Oscar And Eugene. Oscar & Eugene Wright, Rounder 0089, LP (1978), trk# 10a
RECORDING INFO: Shoot the Turkey Buzzard [Me IV-E 9]
Chancey Family. Rosenbaum, Art (ed.) / Folk Visions & Voices. Traditional Music & So...., Univ. of Georgia, Bk (1983), p168 [1979/11/11]
Chancey, Joe. Banjo Newsletter, BNL, Ser (1973-), 1982/12,p 9
Cunningham, Bill. Cunningham, Bill / Hoedown Fiddle in America (How to Play It), Ryckman-Beck, fol (1977), p46
Durham, Mel. Silberberg, Gene (ed.) / Complete Fiddle Tunes I Either Did or Did Not., Silberberg, Fol (2005), p178
Ebenezer. Brody, David (ed.) / Fiddler's Fakebook, Oak, Sof (1983), p256
Fulcher, Bobby. Old Five String, Heritage (Galax) 039, LP (1981), trk# 13
Gaskin, Phyllis. Mountain Dulcimer - Galax Style, Heritage (Galax) 094C, Cas (1991), trk# 15
Hopkins, Al; and his Buckle Busters. Hill Billies, County 405, LP (1973), trk# A.04b [1928/12/20]
Jamieson, Stu;'s Boys. String Band Project, Elektra EKS 7292, LP (1965), trk# A.04
Kidwell, Fiddlin' Van. Midnight Ride, Vetco LP 506, LP (1975), trk# B.07
Mainer's Mountaineers. Good Ole Mountain Music, King 666, LP (196?/1946), trk# 9
Osborne, Uncle Charlie (Charlie N.). Relics and Treasures, June Appal JA 049, LP (1985), trk# 6
Roberts, Fiddlin' Doc. Fiddlin' Doc Roberts / Complete Recorded Works..., Vol 2. 1928-1, Document DOCD 8043, CD (1999), trk# 3 [1928/08/24]
Sapoznik, Hank (Henry). Brody, David (ed.) / Banjo Picker's Fakebook, Oak, Fol (1985), p149b
Schwarz, Tracy and Eloise. Our Kind of Music, Old Homestead 90092, LP (1978), trk# 2
Sprung, Roger. Ragtime Bluegrass, Vol. 2, Folkways FA 2371, LP (1964), trk# 2
Walker, John V.. Devil's Box, Devil's Box, Ser, 25/4, p21b(1991)
OTHER NAMES: Davie Duggar/Davey Dugger/Shoot Old Davy Duggar/Turkey Buzzard
RELATED TO: "Greasy Coat" "Engine on a Mogull," "Greasy String," "Old Coon Dog," "Higher Up the Monkey Climbs." “Slide on down” Miller's Reel (Southern vers); Seneca Square Dance; Davie Dugger; Engineer on the Mogull
SOURCES: Kuntz: A Fiddler’s Companion; Ebenezer [Brody]: Any Old Time String Band (Ca.) [Kuntz]; Joe and Chesley Chancey (Boardtown Community, Cherry Log, Gilmer County, Georgia) [Rosenbaum]; Vivian Williams (Seattle) [Phillips]; Mel Durham [Silberberg]. Brody (Fiddler’s Fakebook), 1983; pg. 256. Kuntz (Ragged but Right), 1987; pg. 322. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), Vol. 1, 1994; pg. 221. Rosenbaum (Folk Visions and Voices: Traditional Music and Song in North Georgia), 1989; pgs. 168‑169. Silberberg (Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern), 2002; pg. 144. Arhoolie 4009, "Any Old Time String Band." Biograph 6007, Ebenezer‑ "Tell it to Me" (appears as "Turkey Buzzard"). County 405, "The Hillbillies" (appears as third tune of "Soldier's Joy Medley"). Folkways FA 2371, Roger Sprung‑ "Ragtime Bluegrass 2." Gennett 6775 (78 RPM), Doc Roberts (Ky.). Vetco 506, Fiddlin Van Kidwell‑ "Midnight Ride." Mudcat Discussion Forum
NOTES: The Brown Collection has a version of the song under the title Turkey Buzzard. Usually an instrumental, the traditional lyrics found in the Brown collection below are sometimes sung to Davy Dugger. The first stanza is attached to Shoot the Turkey Buzzard," a very similar tune.
From Kuntz, Fiddler's Companion: DAVY DUGGER. AKA and see “Coon Dog,” “Old Coon Dog [1].” Old-Time, Breakdown. USA; West Virginia, Kentucky. G Major. Standard tuning. ABB. The tune has been collected in northeastern Kentucky and West Virginia under the “Davy Dugger” title, although it has a much wider provenance as “Coon Dog” or “Old Coon Dog.” Jeff Titon (2001) says it is related to the “Seneca Square Dance”/”Engine on a Mogul” family of tunes, and more distantly related to “Shoot That Turkey Buzzard.” Source for notated version: Clyde Davenport (Monticello, Wayne County, Ky., 1990), who learned the tune from his father, Will Davenport [Titon]. Titon (Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes), 2001; No. 32, pg. 68. Augusta Heritage Records AHR 015, Delbert Hughes – “The Home Recordings.” Davis Unlimited DU 32028, W.L. Gregory/Clyde Davenport – “Homemade Stuff” (1978). Rounder 0089, "Oscar & Eugene Wright" (learned from an "old timer," local Mercer County, W.Va., fiddler George Stump).
Shoot That Turkey Buzzard; from Brown:
"The Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore; the folklore of North Carolina, collected by Dr. Frank C. Brown during the years 1912 to 1943, in collaboration with the North Carolina Folklore Society"
105 Turkey Buzzard
There are in the Collection three fragments of song that hear this title and another that might. One of them, in which with the turkey huzzard stanza is combined a memory of the Civil War, is dealt with under the title "Harness Up Yo' Horses' in the group of Martial, Political, and Patriotic Songs, below. Texts A and C certainly, and B probably, are dance songs. C is a stanza from 'Jump Jim Crow' and has already been reported (with some slight differences) from North Carolina (ANFS 163). South Carolina
(JAFL XLiv 428) and New Orleans (TNFS 127).
Turkey Buzzard.' Communicated by Thomas Smith from Zionville, Watauga county, probably in 1915; the tune was obtained a few years later from Mrs. N. T. Byers. In her singing, the first line of "each stanza is sung three times, which makes one suspect that the text of the first stanza is not correctly reported. Mr. Smith calls it a jig and says that it is "very popular among mountain musicians."
1) Shoot that turkey buzzard
Come flopping down the hollow.
Come flopping down the hollow.
2) Shoot old Davy Dugger dead;
He eat my meat and stole my bread.
3) Shoot old Davy Dugger,
Take his wife and hug her.
4) Oh, that gal with a blue dress on,
She stole my heart and now she's gone.
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