"Fort Smith", also known as "On the Banks of the Cane" or "Rabbit in the Grass" is an old-time breakdown known in Arkansas, Missouri and Kentucky in G Major. The parts are played AABB (Thede) or AABBAACCAADD (Beisswenger/McCann). It is a popular tune throughout the Ozarks Mountain region, generally played in two parts, although other parts may be inserted by some fiddlers. Fiddler Charlie Walden gives "Old Fort Smith" in his list of one hundred essential Missouri fiddle tunes and it is presumably "Fort Smith". The melody may go back to the time when a cavalry division of the US Army was stationed at Fort Smith, Arkansas, as an outpost to the Indian Territory to the west. Another possibility is that this tune was brought from Sweden and renamed 'Fort Smith' by an immigrant the name of Bottefur, who formed a musical organization in the town around 1843. It was printed in Beisswenger & McCann's Ozarks Fiddle Music (2008) and Thede's The Fiddle Book (1967). It was recorded by Art Stamper on The Lost Fiddler (c. 1982), Cotton Combs on Parkin' Lot Jammin' (c. 1970's) and Vesta Johnson on Down Home Rag.