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