Here Come Jack with a Fiddle on His Back

"Here Come Jack with a Fiddle on His Back", also known as "Jaybird Died of the Whooping Cough" is an old time breakdown in D Major. The parts are played AABB.
These words were probably sung to the 'B' part of the tune:

Here comes Jack with a fiddle on his back;
Inquirin' his way to the frolic.

Titon (2001) says the tune is a local south-central Kentucky tune.
The banjo tablature is by John Letscher.
It was recorded in the field by Bruce Greene in 1976 in Metcalf, County, Ky., from the playing of Sammie Walker.
It was printed in Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1 (1994), Titon's Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes (2001)(appears as "Here Come Jack with a Fiddle on His Back, Going to the Frolic").