"The Grey Eagle", also known as "Gray Eagle" or "Grey Eagle Hornpipe" is an old-time, breakdown or Hornpipe. It is known in Alabama, Mississippi, southwestern Virginia, southwestern Pennsylvania, western North Carolina, eastern Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, Indiana, Oklahoma, Texas and Arizona. It is usually played in A Major, a few versions in G Major and rarely in C Major. It is usually played AABB but some versions add a C part. There are a large number of variations in circulation. Perhaps the name gets attached to any tune with a slight similarity to the base tune. I have chosen the one that I liked best to be shown here. The banjo tab is by John Letscher and is a composite of several versions. It was printed in Bayard's Dance to the Fiddle (1981), Beisswenger & McCann's Ozarks Fiddle Music (2008), Brody's Fiddler's Fakebook (1983), Christeson's Old Time Fiddler's Repertory, vol. 1 (1973), Ford's Traditional Music of America (1940), Harding's All-Round Collection (1905), Krassen's Appalachian Fiddle (1973), Lair's 100 WLS Barn Dance Favorites (1935), Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1 (1994) (breakdown version), Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 2 (1995) (hornpipe version), Shumway's Frontier Fiddler (1990) and Silberberg's Fiddle Tunes I Learned at the Tractor Tavern (2002). It was recorded by Eck Robertson, Bartow Riley, Sonny Miller, Joe Greene, Kenny Baker, The Booker Brothers, Taylor's Kentucky Boys (1927)(Featuring the only black hoedown fiddler to record commercially, Jim Booker), Chicken Chokers, Thomas Hunter, Taylor's Kentucky Boys (1980 - originally recorded in 1927), Mark O'Conner, Byron Berline, The Chicken Chokers, James Bryan, Ed Haley, Uncle Am Stuart, (1924), Benny & Jerry Thomasson, Howard Marshall & John Williams, The Booker Brothers and The Hoover Uprights.