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"Walk Along John to Kansas", also known as "Little Rabbit" or
"Rabbit Where's Your Mammy?"
is an old-time breakdown in A Major. It is often played in AEae or AEac#
fiddle tunings. The parts are played AA'BB'.
Arizona fiddler Kenner C. Kartchner identified the tune as having come from the South. "Walk along John to Kansas" was recorded in the field by Alan Lomax from the playing of Frank Goodwyn (guitar) and Mrs. F.E. Goodwyn (fiddle), of Hebbronville, Texas in 1941. The banjo tablature is by John Letscher who learned it at the Gettysburg jam. It was printed in Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1 (1994), Lamancusa's The Gettysburg Collection of Old-Time Fiddle Tunes (2021) and Shumway's Frontier Fiddler (1990). It was recorded by Rafe Stefanini on Glory on the Big String (2001). |