SCVFA Slow-Jam Tunes as of March 2018 Dates on Page Title (key) Slow-Jam List * 1 Angeline the Baker (aka Angelina Baker) (D) 9/15- * 2 Arkansas Traveler (D) 4/15- * 3 Barlow Knife (G) 3/18- 4 Cripple Creek (A) 4/15-1/16 5 Girl I Left Behind Me, The (G) 1/15- 6 Hot Corn, Cold Corn (G) 7/15-7/16 8 Irish Washerwoman (G) 3/15-7/15 9 Jaybird (D) 11/15- 10 June Apple (A) 8/16- 11 Kesh Jig, The (G) 2/15-7/15 12 Liberty (D; 2 versions) 1/15- 13 Long Journey Home (Two Dollar Bill) (G) 8/15-3/16 14 Mississippi Sawyer (D) 11/15- 16 Mountain Dew (G) 5/15-3/16 * 18 Old Joe Clark (A Mixolydian, or mixed) 12/14-1/16 19 Over the Waterfall (A) 11/15- 20 Red Wing (G) 4/16- (instrumental and singing ver.) 22 Red-Haired Boy (A Mix.) 8/15- (as hornpipe and reel) 23 Saint Anne's Reel (D) 8/16- * 24 Shoo Fly (D) 3/18- 25 Soldier’s Joy (D) (2 versions) 12/14- 26 Squirrel Hunters (A Mixolydian & A Dorian) 4/16- 27 Swallowtail Jig (Edor) 8/16- 28 Whiskey Before Breakfast (D) 8/16- 30 Wildwood Flower (C) 1/15- 32 Will the Circle Be Unbroken (A) 5/15-3/16 33 Worried Man Blues (G) 2/15-3/16 * = Added or revised March 2018 1 Key: D maj. Angeline the Baker Traditional, arr. Pete Showman = 90 aka Angelina Baker A D G 1. An ge lin aBaker lives on the vil lage green An ge lin aBaker, (Oh) An ge li in aBaker 5 DDG1 D2 D And the way that I love her Beats all to be seen. An ge line, An ge line, Won’t you please be mine? The 9 B D G ( ) 1. first time I saw An ge line was at the coun ty fair. Her An ge line is hand some, An ge line is tall, she 13 DG1 D2 D ( ) fath er chased me half way home and told me to stay there. Broke her lit tle an kle bone from danc in’ at the Hall. Some play the tune in the opposite order, i.e. what’s here called the [B] part first. You can find both orders on YouTube, and in various tune-books. This is how it’s shown in the Fiddler’s Fakebook, and (perhaps therefore) how I learned it. Arr. by Pete Showman 9/30/05; re-typeset in ABC 3/5/12; rev 2: 8/25/15; rev 3: 3/1/2018 Stephen Foster wrote a song called Angelina Baker in 1851, with a different (though some say related) tune. Since this one is more common in old-time circles and is often called "Angelina Baker", we’ve called the Foster song Angelina Baker’s Gone, to distinguish them. Lyrics to this tune often seem to reflect a mix of Angeline, the Baker, and Foster’s Angelina Baker. These lyrics are from Mudcat Cafe and other sources; they’re arranged to work with the usual AABB repeat pattern. 2A. Angelina Baker, her age is forty-three I give her candy by the peck, but she won’t marry me. Angelina Baker, Angeline I know Wish I’d married Angeline, twenty years ago. 2B. She won’t do the bakin’ because she is too stout She makes cookies by the peck and throws the coffee out. Angeline taught me to weep, she taught me to moan Angeline taught me to weep, and play on the old jawbone Final chorus 1x (to ’A’ part): Angelina Baker, Angelina Baker Angeline, Angeline, won’t you please be mine? Pete Showman Mar 1, 2018 AngelinaBaker_r3.abc 2 Key: D major The Arkansas Traveler Traditional old-time = 90 Arr. Pete Showman & Bob Palasek A (A) (D) DGDD AA A (G) A (A) 5 DG DDDG3 1 AD2 AD B (G) 9 D A7 D A(7) D A(7) D A7 13 D G D A D G1 A(7) D 2 A(7) D ( ) (To repeat (Some chord options are shown in parentheses. ) tune) 1. Once upon a time in Arkansas, an old man sat in his little cabin door, And fiddled at a tune that he liked to hear, a jolly old tune that he played by ear. It was raining hard but the fiddler didn’t care, he sawed away at the popular air, Though his roof-tree** leaked like a water-fall, it didn’t seem to bother the old man at all. 2. A traveler was riding by that day, and stopped to hear the fiddler play; The cabin was afloat and his feet were wet, but still the old man didn’t seem to fret. So the stranger said: "Now it seems to me, you’d better mend your roof," said he. But the old man said, as he played away: "I couldn’t mend it now, it’s a rainy day." 3. The traveler replied: "That’s all quite true, but this, I think, is the thing for you to do; Get busy on a day that is fair and bright, then pitch the old roof till it’s good and tight." But the old man kept on playin’ at his reel, and tapped the ground with his leathery heel: "Get along," said he, "for you give me a pain; my cabin never leaks when it doesn’t rain!" ** A roof-tree is a ridgepole running along the peak of the roof. Arr. and typeset in ABC by Pete Showman 1/24/06; rev 4: 3/3/18 Pete Showman Mar 3, 2018 ArkansasTraveler_r4.abc 3 Key: G Barlow Knife Traditional old-time = 100 A GD GDG D C G ( ) ( ) 5 GD GDGDCG 9 B GDG 13 C DG DGDG D G etc. Arranged and typeset in ABC by Pete Showman 6/11/2013. A barlow is a style of pocket knife made since the 1600s, with a folding blade and a tapered handle whose hinge end is wrapped in a metal bolster for strength. This is mostly a fiddle tune but words like these are commonly sung once or twice, e.g. during the first halves of the A and B parts. There are many variations. I’ve been livin’ here all my life, an’ all I want is a barlow knife. Stag-horn handle and a barlow blade; best darn knife that ever was made. And maybe in the C part: Barlow knife, barlow blade, best darn knife that ever was made. Pete Showman Jun 11, 2013 BarlowKnife_r1.abc 4 MIDI for the tune is available at www.fiddlers.org/tunes A simple version of Cripple Creek, more or less as I would sing it: Key: A major Cripple Creek Traditional old-time = 90 Arr. Pete Showman A ADAAEA B A 5 slide slide slide 1 EA2 EA ( ) The slides are optional Here are some example lyrics. You can find many more on the Web. A. I’ve got a gal at the head of the creek, goin’ up to see her ’bout two times a week. She’s got eyes of darkest brown, makes my head turn all a-roun’ B. Goin’ up Cripple Creek, goin’ on a run, goin’ up Cripple Creek to have a little fun. Goin’ up Cripple Creek, goin’ in a whirl, goin’ up Cripple Creek to see my girl. A fancier version that could be used as a basic bluegrass break: Key: A major Cripple Creek Traditional = 90 Arr. Pete Showman A ADA1 EAEA2 B A 5 slide slide 1 EA2 EA ( ) Here are the equivalent chords in G, for those who may be using a capo to play in A. There are 2 beats per measure. A slash ’/’ means to repeat the same chord on the 2nd beat. [A part] |: G / | C G | G / | D G :| [B part] |: G / | G / | G / | D G :| Typeset in ABC by Pete Showman, 7/12/2015 (rev. 2). Page 6 Fiddler’s Rag August 2015 5 G Maj. The Girl I Left Behind Me = 100 Traditional, arr. Pete Showman A GC G D 5 GCADG1 2 G 9 B GGD 13 GC D1 G2 G ( ) (D.S. Arr. by Pete Showman 9/20/2005; re-typeset in ABC 1/31/2014 (r1) to repeat) Pete Showman Jan 31, 2014 GirlILeftBehindMe_r1.abc 6 Key: G major Hot Corn, Cold Corn Traditional ** = 90 Arr. Pete Showman G 1. Well it’s up stairs down stairs out in the kit chen, 3 D Up stairs down stairs out in the kit chen, 5 G Up stairs down stairs out in the kit chen, 7 DG See Unc le Bill just a rar in’ and a pick in’, yes sir! Chorus: 11 G Hot corn, cold corn, bring a long the dem i john, 13 D Hot corn, cold corn, bring a long the dem i john, 15 G Hot corn, cold corn, bring a long the dem i john, 17 DG Fare well Unc le Bill, see you in the morn ing, yes sir! ** An old song popularized in the bluegrass community by Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys. Here’s a video of the band playing it on Hootenanny, around 1964: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nov127Ta_Eg This instrumental break is based on "Fiddlin’" Doc Roberts’s mandolin playing on a 1934 recording by Asa Martin (1900-1979, guitar and probably vocals here), and Roberts (1897-1978, playing mandolin on this recording though he was mainly known as a fiddler).