Railroading through the Rockies
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Railroading through the Rockies"<br> also known as "Railroading through the Rocky Mountains" is an old-time breakdown<br> in D Major. The parts are played AB (Silberberg), ABB (Lamancusa), AABB (Phillips) or<br> AABCC (Titon).<br> Source Jim Bowles (1903-1993) learned the tune from his uncle, Wash Carter, who called it<br> "Goin' Down to Shirley's" according to Jeff Titon (2001).<br> The tune is related to a large tune family that includes<br> "Cricket on the Hearth",<br> <br> "Damon's Window/Damon's Winder", "The Devil in Georgia", "Grand Hornpipe",<br> "Marmaduke's Hornpipe", "Mud Fence", "Ride the Goat over the Mountain",<br> "Rocky Mountain Goat"<br> <br> and "Swiss Chalet."<br> It was printed in<br> Lamancusa's The Gettysburg Collection of Old-Time Fiddle Tunes (2021),<br> Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1 (1994),<br> Silberberg's Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern (2002) and<br> Titon's Old Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes (2001).<br> It was recorded by Dan Gellert & Shoofly on Forked Deer (1986) and<br> Jim Bowles on I Kind of Believe It's a Gift (c. 1986). <br>
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