Where's that Preacher with the Rabbi's Wife?
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Where's that Preacher with the Rabbi's Wife?" is an American reel in 2/4 time and<br> G Major. The parts are played AABB.<br> This title is a euphemism for the original title which was either "Where's That Nigger<br> with the White Man's Wife?" or "Nigger ran off with the White Man's Wife".<br> This title comes from Rayna Gellert's recording on Ways of the World (2000).<br> Another title attempting to sanitize the title is "Miscegenation".<br> The source for the tune and title was Ethel Harmon "Red" Abbott, of Mattoon, Coles County,<br> east-central Illinois. Abbott was born in 1895 in Old Lebanon, Missouri and brother<br> to another musical informant, Jess Abbott. It was collected in 1979 by musician and<br> regional collector Gary Harrison.<br> Similarly, Estill Bingham, of Bell County, Kentucky, an elderly fiddler recorded by<br> Bob Butler in the 1980s, played a piece he called "Rich Man Stole the Poor Man's Wife".<br> It was recorded by Indian Creek Delta Boys on Late for the Dance (1978) and<br> Rayna Gellert on Ways of the World (2000).<br>
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