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Want To Go To a Meeting And Got No Shoes
Old-Time breakdown;
ARTIST: Frank Kittrell – “Great Big Yam Potatoes: Anglo American Fiddle Music from Mississippi”
CATEGORY: Fiddle and Instrumental Tunes
EARLIEST DATE: 1939 Recording by Kittrell
RECORDING INFO: Wabash Want to Go to Meeting [and Got No Shoes] [Me IV-A15]
Rm - Johnson Gal/Gals
Kittrell, Frank. Great Big Yam Potatoes. Anglo-American Fiddle Music from Missi., Southern Culture AH002, LP (1985), trk# A.15 [1939/05/20]
SOURCES: Folk Index; Kuntz
NOTES: Tom Rankin (1985) believes the title “Want to go to Meeting and Got No Shoes” is “almost certainly” the second line of a rhyme as well. The source, Frank Kittrell (b. 1871) of Lauderdale County, Mississippi, learned the tune from his uncle David Kittrell of the same county and recalled going to a party when he was ten years old (c. 1881) and hearing his uncle fiddle it while a cousin seconded on the straws. In 1939, when he recorded the tune, he told one of the collectors that, “Nowadays, they are playing ‘Turkey in the Straw’ and all this classical stuff.” Mississippi Department of Archives and History AH‑002, Frank Kittrell – “Great Big Yam Potatoes: Anglo American Fiddle Music from Mississippi” (1985. Originally recorded for the Library of Congress in 1939). [Kuntz]
WANT TO GO TO MEETING AND GOT NO SHOES. Old‑Time, Breakdown. USA, Mississippi. A Major. AEac# tuning. AABBC. The melody of the first phrase is similar to “Johnson Gal(s).” The tune is better known as “Calico” from the rhyme:
Don’t care where in the world I go,
Can’t get around for the calico.
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