Big Eyed Rabbit
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Big-Eyed Rabbit" is an old-time breakdown known in Alabama, Mississippi and western North<br> Carolina in A Major. It was played in AEae fiddle tuning by Tommy Jarrell and Kirk Sutphin or<br> standard tuning. The parts are played ABB (irregular 'A' part) or AABB (Silberberg).<br> The A part is crooked by containing 10 measures.<br> It was recorded by Quitman, Mississippi, fiddler Charles Long in 1939 in the field for the Library of<br> Congress.<br> It was printed in Silberberg's Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern (2002) and<br> Spadaro's 10 Cents a Dance (1980). <br> It was recorded by Kirk Sutphin on Old Roots and New Branches (1994) and<br> Tommy Jarrell on Joke on the Puppy (1976).<br>
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