Sheep Shell Corn
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Sheep Shell Corn", also known as "Sheep Shell Corn by the Rattling of his Horn",<br> "Sheep Shuckin' Corn", "Sheepy Shell Corn" and "Fuller's Reel" is an American reel<br> in cut time and A Major ('A' part) & D Major/A Major ('B' part). The parts are played<br> AB (Silberberg) or AABB (Kuntz, Phillips).<br> "Sheep Shell Corn" is a Galax, southwestern Virginia, standard and was in the<br> repertoire of older Grayson County fiddlers such as Emmett Lundy (1864-1953),<br> Roscoe Parish (1897-1984) and Luther Davis (1887-1986).<br> Lundy learned some of his repertoire from an older fiddler named Greenberry<br> Leonard (1810-1892), although there is no indication whether "Sheep Shell" was one of<br> the tunes acquired from that source. However, the title (as "Sheepie Shell Corn")<br> appears in a list of traditional Ozarks Mountains fiddle tunes compiled by<br> musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph, published in 1954.<br> Contemporary Mid-West fiddler Brad Leftwich calls the melody "Fuller's Reel" after<br> his source, who had no name for it.<br> The banjo tablature is by John Letscher. His comment:<br> Learned from Highwoods. None better.<br> Lundy and Reeves sang no verses to the tune, but verses dating to the 19th century<br> are extant but usually set to different tunes.<br> Several versions of lyrics were published in the Frank C. Brown Collection of<br> North Carolina Folkore, vol. III (1922) and Thomas Talley's Negro Folk Rhymes (1922).<br> It was printed in Kuntz's Ragged but Right (1987) (two versions),<br> Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1 (1994) and<br> Silberberg's Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern (2002).<br> It was recorded by Highwoods String Band on The Young Fogies (1985),<br> Luther Davis, Roscoe & Leone Parish on The Old Time Way (1986) and<br> Dan Gellert & Shoofly on Forked Deer (1986).<br>
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