"Sally Goodin", also known as "Sally Gooden", "Sally Goodwin", "Sally Goodin'", "Broke-Legged Chicken", "Sallie Gooden" or "Sally Goodman is an American reel in cut time or 4/4 time in A Major (most versions) or G Major (John Brown, Phillips/Davenport). It is played in AEae (Eck Robertson, Hiram Stamper, Marcus Martin) or standard fiddle tunings. The parts are played AB (Bayard), AAB (Phillips/Martin), AABB (Brody, Kartchner, Phillips, Thede), AABB' (Phillips/Davenport), AABB’CBB’ (Beisswenger & McCann), AABBCCDD (Sweet), AA'BB'CDCD (Ford), AABBCCDDEE (Phillips/Franklin) or AABB'CC'DDEE (Frets). It is a widely known breakdown and play party tune in the upland South but not universally known throughout the country. Bayard (1981) suggests that the tunes "Sally Goodin", "Old Dan Tucker" and his Pennsylvania collected "Rye Whiskey" are related "in an affinity that goes back a long while". The tune was recorded for the Library of Congress by musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph from Ozarks Mountains fiddlers in the early 1940's. He said it was popular at play-parties in the Ozarks in the 1890's. Texas fiddler Eck Robertson's 1923 release of "Sally Goodin'" (backed with "Ragtime Annie") was the number one country music bestseller for the year. It was printed in Bayard's Dance to the Fiddle (1981), Beisswenger & McCann's Ozarks Fiddle Music (2008), Brody's Fiddler’s Fakebook (1983), Ford's Traditional Music in America (1940), Frets Magazine, "Byron Berline: The Fiddle", May 1980, Kaufman's Beginning Old Time Fiddle (1977), Lowinger's Bluegrass Fiddle (1974), Phillips' Fiddle Case Tune Book (1989), Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1 (1994), Rosenbaum's Folk Visions and Voices: Traditional Music and Song in North Georgia (1989), Shumway's Frontier Fiddler (1990) (miss-labeled as "Sally Johnson"), Sweet's Fifer’s Delight (1965/1981) and Thede's The Fiddle Book (1967). It was recorded by Eck Robertson (et al) on Southern String Bands, Vol. 1 & 2 (1984), Scotty Stoneman on Live in L.A. (2007), Kenny Baker on Dry and Dusty (1973), Clark Kessinger on The Legend of Clark Kessinger (1996) and Clark Kessinger Live at Union Grove (1968), Bartow Riley on Texas Hoedown (2010), Sonny Miller on Virginia Breakdown (1966), New Lost City Ramblers on 20 Years/Concert Performances (1978), New Lost City Ramblers on Vol. 2 (1993), G.B. Grayson (78 RPM) (1928), Lowe Stokes on Georgia Fiddle Bands (1972), Ted Boyd (et al) on Far on the Mountains, Vols. 1 & 2 (2002), Thomasson, Shorty, Morris and O'Connor on A Texas Jam Session (1977), Berline, Bush and O'Connor on In Concert (1977), The White Brothers on Live in Sweden (1973), Johnnie Lee Wills on Tulsa Swing (1978), Dan Crary on Lady's Fancy (1977), John Hickman on Don't Mean Maybe (1978), Gene Goforth on Emminence Breakdown (1997), Skip Gorman on Lonesome Prairie Love (1996), Mike Seegar on Solo—Old Time Country Music (1991), Bob Holt on Got a Little Home to Go To (1998), Ricky Skaggs on Rounder Fiddle (1992) and Mrs. Edd Presnell on Instumental Music of the Southern Appalachians (1956). It is a simple tune to play. Everybody knows it. I can't remember where I picked it up.