Rattlesnake Bit the Baby
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Rattlesnake Bit the Baby", also known as "Katy Did", "Boston Boy",<br> "Ladies in the Ballroom", "Kill the Shanghai Rooster" or "Take Me Back to Georgia"<br> is an old-time breakdown in C Major. The parts are played AABB.<br> The title appears to be from mandolinist Kenny Hall, but is better-known under<br> the name Lowe Stokes recorded it, "Take Me Back to Georgia".<br> As "Kill the Shanghai Rooster" it was popularized among bluegrass musicians by banjo<br> player Don Stover and fiddler Tex Logan. <br> It was printed in Gray & Hall's Kenny Hall's Music Book (1999),<br> Kuntz's Ragged but Right (1987),<br> Lamancusa's The Gettysburg Collection of Old-Time Fiddle Tunes (2021) and<br> Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1 (1994).<br> It was recorded by John Ashby and the Free State Ramblers on Old Virginia Fiddling (1970),<br> and John Ashby and the Free State Ramblers (2007),<br> Vesta Johnson and Steve Hall on North Missouri Dance Fiddling (2015),<br> Vesta Johnson on Blue Flame (1994),<br> Mike Seegar on The Second Annual Farewell Reunion (1973, as "Kill the Shanghai Rooster"),<br> Kenny Hall on Kenny Hall and the Long Haul String Band (1980) and<br> Jim Wood and John Hartford on The Bullies Have all Gone to Rest (1998).<br>
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