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