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"Calico", also known "Want to go to Meeting and Got No Shoes" is an American reel in cut time
and A Mixolydian ('A' part) & A Major ('B' part).
Calico is an all-cotton fabric woven in plain, or tabby, weave and printed with simple designs in one or more colors. Calico originated in Calicut, India, by the 11th century, if not earlier, and in the 17th and 18th centuries calicoes were an important commodity traded between India and Europe. The tune was recorded by Herbert Halpert for the Library of Congress from the playing of Lauderville County, Mississippi, fiddler Stephen B. Tucker in 1939. A rhyme sung to the tune goes: Don't care where in the world I go,It was printed in Titon's Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes (2001). It was recorded by Jim Bowles on Railroading Through the Rocky Mountains (1994) and Erynn Marshal on Calico (2005). |