Little Girl With Her Hair All Down Behind
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Little Girl With Her Hair All Down Behind" is an old-time breakdown in 2/4 time and
A Major. It was played in AEae fiddle tuning. The parts are played AABB.
It was collected by Marion Thede from W.S. Collins of Pottawatomie County in Oklahoma.
Collins came from a musical Oklahoma family whose more modern representative was the
fiddler Earl Collins.
W.S. Collins sang these words to the tune:
Sixteen miles away form home
Chickens a-crowin' for day,
Sitting and a-talkin' to my pretty little girl,
I'd better be gettin' away.
Can you change a nickel?
Can you change a dime?
Can you change a pretty little girl
With her hair all down behind.
I can change a nickel,
I can change a dime,
I can change a pretty little girl
With her hair all down behind.
It was printed in Thede's The Fiddle Book (1967).
It was recorded by J'Anna Jacob on Little Girl With Her Hair All Down Behind (1976),
Rayna Gellert & Friends on Ways of the World (2000),
Triple Chicken Foot on Tar River (2010) and
John Hartford on Goin' Back to Dixie (2010).
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