"Laney Tunin' His Fiddle" is an American breakdown in D Major. The parts are played AABB. It was composed by Mrs. Sarah Armstrong, inspired by her Uncle Laney, "the most accomplished fiddler in the family and the one who knew the greatest store of old music" (Bayard 1944). Bayard groups it with "Dream Song" and "Waltzing With the One I Love". All three tunes were composed by Sarah Armstrong. Bayard says that these tunes "demonstrate that the making of melodies is not yet quite dead in Pennsylvania". It was collected from Mrs. Sarah Armstrong, (near) Derry, Pennsylvania on November 18, 1943 by Samuel Bayard. It was printed in Bayard's Hill Country Tunes (1944).