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Ride Old Buck To Water
Old-Time Fiddle breakdown
ARTIST: from Skillet Lickers 1930.
CATEGORY: Fiddle and Instrumental Tunes
DATE: Negro Poems By William C. Blades 1921; Dates back to minstrel era; published in 1967 by Thede;
RECORDING INFO: Skillet Lickers. Skillet Lickers, Vol. 2, County 526, LP (1973), trk# 6 [1930/12/04]
Skillet Lickers. Old Time Fiddle Tunes and Songs from N. Georgi, County CD 3509, CD (1996), trk# 5 [1930/12/04]
West Orrtana String Band. Orrtana Home Companion, Revonah RS-932, LP (1978), trk# A.03
Chicken Chokers. Elderly Instruments
Fiddle tune played by Tommy Taylor with banjo and vocal accompaniment by Ballard "Pappy" Taylor and recorded by John Harrod in Kenton County, Kentucky 4-7-89.
OTHER NAMES: Ride Old Buck to the Water; Hell Broke Loose in Georgia
RELATED TO: "Hellbound for Alabama,"
SOURCES: Meade; Ceolas; Folk Index;
NOTES: Meade calls this a version of "Hell Broke Loose in Georgia." Riley Puckett sings the tune and provides some hot bass guitar runs. A similar tune is "Hellbound for Alabama," recorded in the 1920's by another north Georgia band, Fiddlin' John Carson and His Virginia Reelers.
This fiddle tune, played by Tommy Taylor with banjo and vocal accompaniment by Ballard "Pappy" Taylor, was recorded by John Harrod in Kenton County, Kentucky 4-7-89 and can be heard on Digital Appalachia.
"Ride Old Buck To Water" from the Skillet Lickers:
[long fiddle intro]
Ride old Buck to water,
Ride old Buck to water.
Saw him down at the foot of the hill,
If he ain't come back I'd a been there still.
[fiddle]
Ride Old Buck to the halter
Sold for a dollar and a quarter.
[fiddle]
Ride old Buck to water,
Ride old Buck to water.
Saw him down at the foot of the hill,
If he ain't come back I'd a been there still.
[fiddle]
Ride Old Buck to the halter
Sold for a dollar and a quarter.
[fiddle]
Ride old buck to water,
Ride old buck to water.
Saw him down at the foot of the hill,
If he ain't come back I'd a been there still.
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