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Sal Let Me Chaw Your Rosin Some
Old-Time Song and breakdown. Southeast. Not widely known
ARTIST: From Skillet Lickers
CATEGORY: Fiddle and Instrumental Tunes
DATE: First recorded Skillet Lickers 1928 by title, Sal, Let Me Chaw Your Rosin Some.
RECORDING INFO: Gid Tanner and his Skillet Lickers 1928 Atlanta Ga. on Co 15267-D; Shelton Brothers and Curly Fox (Ga.) Decca 5137 (78 RPM), {1935}. Recorded for Gennet (GE 16637) by the Tweedy Brothers (W.Va. brothers Henry, George, and Charles playing two fiddles and a piano) in 1930, but unissued. Possum Hunters. In the Pines, Takoma A-1025, LP (196?), trk# 14;
RELATED TO: Fire On the Mountain [Appalachian]
OTHER NAMES: Sal Let Me Chew Your Rosin Some; Let Me Chew Your Rosin Some; Rosin Gum;
SOURCES: Kuntz; Folk Index; Meade.
NOTES: Meade lists “Sal Let Me Chaw Your Rosin Some” under Fire On the Mountain, which tends to be a floating title. The Skillet Lickers version (Version 1) can be heard on-line at Honkingduck, the other version (Version 2) can be heard online at Max Hunter entitled “Rosin Gum [sic]”.
SAL LET ME CHAW YOUR ROSIN SOME
Gid Tanner and his Skillet Lickers 1928 Atlanta Ga. on Co 15267-D;
[Spoken: Ah Riley, Lets go down to see old Sal.
See if she wants to give us a cud of
that rosin to chew on this morning.
(Riley:) All right, let’s go down to that sweet gum tree and find out.
All right. We’ll go down and play her a little tune called
“Sal Let Me Chaw Your Rosin Some.” Let’s go boys.]
(Fiddle)
Jump up Jinny, jump up Joe,
You never get to heaven ‘till you jump Jim Crow.
(Fiddle)
Cabbage in the garden, Peas in the gum,
Sal let me chaw your rosin some.
(Fiddle)
Hogs in the garden sifting sand,
Sal’s in love with the hog-eyed man.
(Fiddle)
Along comes Jinny and along comes Joe,
Along comes Jinny with her apron on.
(Fiddle)
Cabbage in the garden, peas in the gum,
Sal let me chaw your rosin some.
(Fiddle)
Hogs in the garden sifting sand,
Sal’s in love with the hog-eyed man.
(Fiddle)
Jump up Jinny and jump up Joe,
You never get to heaven (un)less you jump Jim Crow.
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