Here Come Jack with a Fiddle on His Back
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Here Come Jack with a Fiddle on His Back", also known as<br> "Jaybird Died of the Whooping Cough" is an old time breakdown in D Major.<br> The parts are played AABB.<br> These words were probably sung to the 'B' part of the tune:<br> Here comes Jack with a fiddle on his back;<br> Inquirin' his way to the frolic.<br> Titon (2001) says the tune is a local south-central Kentucky tune.<br> The banjo tablature is by John Letscher.<br> It was recorded in the field by Bruce Greene in 1976 in Metcalf, County, Ky.,<br> from the playing of Sammie Walker. <br> It was printed in Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1 (1994),<br> Titon's Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes (2001)(appears as "Here Come Jack<br> with a Fiddle on His Back, Going to the Frolic").<br>
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