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Old Hat, The/Lynchburg Town
Traditional Old-Time, Breakdown- Mississippi; Southeast;
ARTIST: From Leake County Revelers; Columbia 15205 - D Side A; Issued: November 1927
CATEGORY: Fiddle and Instrumental Tunes. DATE: 1800’s.
RECORDING INFO:
Old Hat by Leake County Revelers; Columbia 15205 - D Side A Recorded: Unknown Issued: November 1927
Voyager 340, Jim Herd - "Old Time Ozark Fiddling."
RELATED TO: Lynchburg Town; Shear Em;
OTHER NAMES: Lynchburg Town
SOURCES: Kaufman, Alan. Beginning Old-time Fiddle, Oak, sof (1977), p56. Brody (Fiddler's Fakebook), 1983; pg. 201. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, Vol. 1), 1994; pg. 162.
NOTES: The melody's quite similar to Lynchburg Town as well as the southern coastal plain favorite, Shear'em/Sharem (parts of which later morphed into into Walkin in My Sleep & Take Me Back to Tulsa). This is the standard chorus:
Gwine on down town, gwine on down to town
I'm gwine on down to Vicksburg town (or other various tobacco towns-Joe Thompson sings "Reidsville" & others sing" Lynchburg")
For to take my tobacco (or 'bacca) down.
Kuntz lists: OLD HAT. Voyager 340, Jim Herd - "Old Time Ozark Fiddling." See Lynchburg Town for more info.
OLD HAT by Leake County Revelers
Columbia 15205 - D Side A
Recorded: Unknown Issued: November 1927
(Fiddle intro)
When you hear your cow a lowin',
You'll know it's milkin' time
So back your leg old Jersey
And let your milk come down.
CHORUS: Gwine on down town
Gwine on down to town
I'm going on down to Vicksburg town
To take my bacco down.
(Fiddle break)
Gwine on down town
Gwine on down to town
I'm going on down to Vicksburg town
To take my bacco down.
I went up to see my gal
See my one in all,
She jumped up beside me?
And we went to the ball?
Gwine on down town
Gwine on down to town
I'm going on down to Vicksburg town
To take my bacco down.
(Fiddle break)
I went down to shoo fly's house,
shoo fly wasn't at home
Ate up all of shoo fly's meat
And gave his dog the bone.
Gwine on down town
Gwine on down to town
I'm going on down to Vicksburg town
To take my bacco down.
(Fiddle break)
Gwine on down town
Gwine on down to town
I'm going on down to Vicksburg town
To take my bacco down.
Raccoon up the Simmon tree
Possum on the ground
Possum said to the raccoon
Better throw some simmons down.
Gwine on down town
Gwine on down to town
I'm going on down to Vicksburg town
To take my bacco down.
(Fiddle break)
Raccoon on the main line
Possum on the swing
The raccoon said there ain't no railroad man,
To tell me anything.
Gwine on down town
Gwine on down to town
I'm going on down to Vicksburg town
To take my bacco down.
(Fiddle break)
Gwine on down town
Gwine on down to town
I'm going on down to Vicksburg town
To take my bacco down.
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