Can You Dance A Tobacco Hill?
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Can You Dance a Tobacco Hill?" is an American reel in D Major. The parts are played AABB.<br> It is a reel from the playing of Owen 'Snake' Chapman<br> who learned the tune from his father, G.W. Chapman.<br> A possibly related, although distanced, tune is "Charlie MacLean's Strathspey" from<br> the playing of fiddler Joe Peter MacLean.<br> "Can You Dance a Tobacco Hill?" moves like a Scottish tune it may<br> be related to "Charlie MacLean's Strathspey". Sources don't give a good explanation as to<br> what the title of the tune actually means. It is assumed that a "tobacco hill" is a type<br> of dance.<br> The banjo tablature is by John Letscher. His comment:<br> This is as I heard Brad Leftwich's cover of the tune mixed with Mac Benford's rendering.<br> Both are great. I've heard it played as written here, but also with A and B repeated.<br> It was printed in Titon's Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes (2001).<br> It was recorded Brad Leftwich on Say Old Man (1996),<br> Bruce Greene & Hilary Dirlam on Fiddler's Dozen (1985) and<br> Owen "Snake" Chapman on Up in Chapman's Hollow (1996).<br>
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