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Grandmammy Look at Uncle Sam
Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, West Virginia, eastern Kentucky, Tennessee.
ARTIST: Howard Forrester who learned it from his Uncle Bob Cates (Hickman, Tennessee)
CATEGORY: Fiddle and Instrumental Tunes DATE: Early 1900’s
RECORDING INFO: Marimac AHS #3, Glen Smith - "Say Old Man" (1990. Learned from Howdy Forrester). Rounder CD0392, John Hartford - "Wild Hog in the Red Brush and a Bunch of Others You Might Not Have Heard" 1996 cut# 3. (Learned from Howdy Forrester). Goforth, Gene. Emminence Breakdown, Rounder 0388, CD (1997), cut#29;
OTHER NAMES: "Granny Look at Uncle Sam," "Grandma, Take a Look at Uncle Sam," "Run Here Granny, Take a Look at Uncle Sam" (Ed Hayley's title).
SOURCES: Kuntz: A Fiddler's Companion; Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), Vol. 2, 1995; pg. 57. Goforth, Gene. Devil's Box, Devil's Box DB, Ser (196?), 30/4, p27
NOTES: "A Dorian/Mixolydian/Major. Standard. ABCC. The tonality keeps shifting between the minor and major throughout the tune." (Kuntz, Fiddler's Companion, http://www.ceolas.org/tunes/fc).
LYRICS:
Run here Grandmammy, look at (Uncle) Sam,
He's soppin' all the gravey and eatin' all the ham.
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