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I Get My Whiskey from Rockingham
Traditional Old-Time, Breakdown, Southeast- Mississippi;
ARTIST: Earl Johnson & His Clodhoppers - "Old-Time Fiddle Classics" County 507
CATEGORY: Fiddle and Instrumental Tunes DATE: Early 1900’s
RECORDING INFO: County 507, Earl Johnson & His Clodhoppers - "Old-Time Fiddle Classics." County 543, Earl Johnson and His Clodhoppers - "Red Hot Breakdown." (Tommy Jarrell). Marimac 9009, Chad Crumm - "Old Time Friends" (1987). Jay Ungar (New York) [Kuntz]. "Way Down in Rockingham," recorded for the Library of Congress in 1939 by Herbert Halpert from the playing of the Simpson County, Mississippi, Enos Canoy Band.
OTHER NAMES: “Rockingham Cindy,” "Way Down in Rockingham;" “Where’d You Get Your Whiskey,” "Jinny Go 'Round and Around," "Rocky Road Cindy."
SOURCES: Kuntz (Ragged but Right), 1987; pg. 335-336. County 507, Earl Johnson and His Clodhoppers- "Old-Time Fiddle Classics." Philo 1023, Jay Ungar and Lyn Hardy- "Songs, Ballads and Fiddle Tunes" (1975. Learned from Earl Johnson's late 1920's recording).
NOTES: A Major. Standard. AAB. (Earl Johnson) (Jay Ungar)[Kuntz]. D Major. ADAE (Tommy Jarrell). Lyrics by Earl Johnson from Kuntz:
Where'd you get your whiskey, where'd you get your dram?
I got it from a little girl way down in Rockingham.
Refrain: Rocky Road Cindy, rocky road to town,
Rocky Road Cindy, way down in Rockingham.
I went down to Rockingham, I did not go to stay,
I fell in love with a pretty girl and I could not get away.
Lips as red as a red rose, her hair was huckleberry brown,
The sweetest girl I ever saw, way down in Rockingham.
First I kissed Cindy once and then I kissed her twice,
I'll tell you where I kissed her, gonna kiss her there tonight.
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