Over the Waterfall
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Over the Waterfall", also known as "The Fellow that Looks Like Me" or<br> "Punkin Head" was collected from fiddler Henry Reed of Glen Lyn, Virginia.<br> It was learned directly from Reed and popularized in<br> modern times by folklorist and fiddler Alan Jabbour.<br> It has been suggested that "Over the Waterfall" may originally<br> have been a composed piece from the turn of the 20th century<br> that was disseminated via traveling-circus and riverboat musicians.<br> It may have been composed by Irish-American songwriter<br> John F. Poole who also composed the words to "Tim Finigan's Wake" (c. 1861)<br> and who is credited with the words and music to the labor<br> protest song "No Irish Need Apply".<br> I think I have known this tune forever. I know I had it<br> in the late 60's because I taught it to a fellow student<br> at Penn State who was just starting to learn fiddle. The<br> next year when we went to the Fox Hollow Festival, when<br> we pulled into the camp ground, his wife came running up<br> to me, got down on her knees and begged "will you PLEASE<br> teach him another tune". I did and I'm proud to say that<br> my one time fiddle student went on to become a really good fiddler.<br> It was printed in Brody's Fiddler's Fakebook (1983),<br> Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1 (1994),<br> Silberberg's Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern (2002),<br> Sing Out, #198,<br> Welling's Welling's Hartford Tunebook (1976). <br> It was recorded by Cape Cod Fiddlers on Concert Collection II (1999),<br> Al Hopkins and His Bucklebusters,<br> Fennigs All Stars on The Hammered Dulcimer (1973),<br> The Hollow Rock String Band on The Hollow Rock String Band (1968),<br> John Burke on Fancy Pickin' and Plain Singing and<br> Norman Blake on Rising Fawn String Ensemble.<br>
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