Rocky Mountain Goat
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Rocky Mountain Goat", also known in several variations as "Railroad(ing) Through<br> the Rocky Mountains", "Damon's Window/Winder", "Devil in Georgia", "Drunken Billy<br> Goat", “Grand Hornpipe", "Mud Fence", "Ride the Goat Over the Mountains" and<br> "Swiss Chalet" is an old-time breakdown. It is known in Texas, Missouri, Virginia,<br> Kentucky and West Virginia. It is in 4/4 time and D Major. The parts are played AABB.<br> The second pat is similar to an untitled Pennsylvania-collected reel in Bayard<br> (1981; No. 356).<br> At least one version is well-known as a West Virginia tune, while Charles Wolfe<br> (1983) states it was a popular Kentucky tune. It was in fact recorded by a number of<br> Kentucky fiddlers, including Jilson Setters (AKA Blind Bill Day), Ted Gossett,<br> Charlie Wilson. and Cliff Gross.<br> It was recorded for Paramount in 1927 by Doc Roberts and his band the Kentucky Thoroughbreds<br> ("Dick" Parman and "Ted" Chestnut) and later redone by him for Gennett (1929). <br> It was printed in R.P. Christeson's Old Time Fiddlers Repertory, vol. 1 (1973),<br> Brody's Fiddler’s Fakebook (1983).<br> It was recorded by Doc Roberts, Mose Coffman, Buddy Young’s Kentuckians and<br> Alan Jabbour and Ken Perlman.<br> I learned it from the Jabbour/Perlman recording Southern Summits.<br> The version given here is from Alan Jabbour's transcription of Henry Reeds's playing which<br> was irregular enough that Jabbour wrote it out without repeats. On the recording Jabbour<br> plays a variation of the B part that doesn't match the transcription. In the<br> first measures of the B part he goes up to the d but plays it as a harmonic and holds it for<br> a full beat, then a half beat and then two 1/16th notes in a slightly different phrase.<br> The banjo tablature is by John Letscher. His notes:<br> "The version is from the author (Wade Jarvis) by way of himself, Lightand Hitch and<br> Bruce Molsky. I first learned it as 'Mud Fence' from Burt Feintuch."<br> <br>
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