Dan Levenson's Master Collection of Old-Time Tunes

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Whether you already play old-time music, or you are just getting started, this is the book for you. Dan Levenson’s Master Collection of Old-Time Tunes presents more than 300 tunes in standard notation with suggested chords for you to explore and enjoy. All but a few are traditional or older tunes and are easily searched online to discover their pedigree as well as several recorded versions of them.Some might call this a complete repertoire in a book in the following sense: It is a large (though not encyclopedic) collection of old-time fiddle tunes played in today’s sessions.Learning the tunes in this book will give you a solid old-time repertoire that would allow you to join in jams in the many communities playing old-time music today.

Contents

1. Ain’t Gonna Get No Supper Here Tonight
2. Altamont
3. Angelina Baker (aka Angeline the Baker)
4. Antelope Gap
5. Arkansas Traveler
6. Avalon Quickstep
7. And the Cat Came Back
8. Barlow Knife (John Salyer)
9. Barlow Knife (Song)
10. Banjo Tramp
11. Been to the East, Been to the West
12. Big Eyed Rabbit
13. Big John McNeil
14. Big Scioto
15. Bill Cheatam
16. Billy in the Low Ground
17. Black Eyed Suzianna (aka Susiana)
18. Black Cat in a Briar Patch
19. Black Hills Waltz
20. Black Jack Grove
21. Blackbird Says to the Crow
22. Boatman
23. Bob Tailed Mule
24. Booth Shot Lincoln
25. Bowl-a-Rama
26. Breaking Up Christmas
27. Briar Picker Brown
28. Broken Down Gambler
29. Buck Mountain
30. Buffalo Gals (KY version in G)
31. Buffalo Gals (Common version in G)
32. Buffalo Gals (in A)
33. Buckin’ Dun
34. Bull at the Wagon
35. Camp Chase
36. Camp Meeting on the th of July
37. Candy Girl
38. Chase the Squirrel
39. Chattanooga
40. Cincinnati Hornpipe
41. Cherokee Shuffle (in A)
42. Cherokee Shuffle (in D)
43. Chinese Breakdown
44. Climbing the Golden Stairs
45. Chinquapin Hunting (in A)
46. Chinquapin Hunting (in D – Stamper)
47. Coast Is Clear
48. Cluck Old Hen
49. Colored Aristocracy
50. Cookhouse Joe
51. Crow Little Rooster
52. Crook Brothers Breakdown
53. Crow Creek
54. Cuffy
55. Cuckoo’s Nest in D
56. Cuckoo’s Nest in A (aka Richmond)
57. Dance All Night with a Bottle in My Hand
58. Devil Eat the Groundhog
59. Dinah
60. Doctor, Doctor
61. Dogs in the Dishes
62. Double File
63. Dry and Dusty
64. Drunken Hiccups
65. Ducks on the Mill Pond
66. Dubuque
67. Duck River
68. Ducks in the Pond
69. Duke of Kent’s Waltz
70. Mr. Fishar’s Hornpipe (aka Fisher’s Hornpipe)
71. Durang’s Hornpipe
72. Dusty Miller
73. Ebenezer
74. Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss (in D aka Western Country)
75. Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss (in G from The Tar Heel Rattlers)
76. Flying Clouds (aka Flying Cloud Cotillion)
77. Elzic’s Farewell
78. Five Miles From Town
79. Flying Indian
80. Folding Down the Sheets
81. Forked Deer
82. Fortune
83. Fun’s All Over
84. Gaston
85. George Booker
86. Georgia Railroad
87. Gilsaw
88. Get Off Your Money
89. Give the Fiddler a Dram
90. Girl I Left Behind
91. Glory Medley
92. Goodbye Girls, I’m Going to Boston
93. Going Up Town
94. Goodbye My Little Darling
95. Grey Cat on a Tennessee Farm
96. Grand Picnic
97. Grasshopper Sitting on a Sweet Potato Vine
98. Greasy Coat (Hammons)
99. Greasy String (Tommy Jarrell)
100. Greasy String (Melvin Wine)
101. Great Big Taters in a Sandy Land
102. Green Willis (aka The Raw Recruit)
103. Grey Eagle
104. Grub Springs
105. Hangman’s Reel
106. Happy Hollow
107. Half Past Four
108. Hell and Scissors
109. Henry Reed’s Breakdown
110. Hey Little Girl Do What You Want
111. High Yellow
112. Hollow Poplar
113. Home With the Girls in the Morning
114. Hooker’s Hornpipe
115. Hop Light Ladies (aka Miss McLeod’s Reel)
116. Hunt the Buffalo
117. I Don’t Love Nobody
118. Icy Mountain
119. I’m Going to Get My Mustache Blacked
120. Indian Ate the Woodchuck
121. Indian Corn (aka Ol’ Woodard’s Tune)
122. I’ve Got No Honey Babe Now
123. Jaybird
124. Jaybird Died of the Whooping Cough
125. Jeff City
126. Jeff Sturgeon
127. Jenny on the Railroad
128. Jimmy in the Swamp
129. Jimmy Shank
130. John Brown’s Dream
131. John Brown’s March
132. John Henry
133. John Lover’s Gone
134. John Sharp’s Reel
135. John Stenson’s #2
136. Johnny Cope
137. Johnny Don’t Get Drunk
138. Johnson Boys
139. Johnson Gals
140. Jonah in the Windstorm
141. Juliann Johnson
142. Jump in the Well My Pretty Little Miss
143. Jump Jim Crow
144. Kash Kersey
145. Just From the Fountain
146. Katy Hill
147. Kansas City Reel
148. Lady of the Lake  
149. Lady of the Lake  
150. Ladies on the Steamboat
151. Leather Britches
152. Liberty
153. Little Burnt Potato
154. Little Betty Brown
155. Little Billy Wilson
156. Little Dutch Girl
157. Little Girl with Her Hair Down Behind
158. Little Sadie
159. Log Chain
160. Logan County Blues
161. Love Somebody
162. Lonesome Train
163. Lost Indian (Ed Haley)
164. Maggots in the Sheep Hide
165. Magpie
166. Martha Campbell
167. Meadow Prancer (Ryck Kaiser)
168. Merry Blacksmith
169. McMichen’s Reel (aka Hog Trough Reel)
170. Mike in the Wilderness
171. Mississippi Sawyer
172. Mole in the Ground
173. Monkey on a Dogcart
174. Money Musk
175. Money Musk (Wooliver’s)
176. Moses Hoe the Corn
177. Muddy Roads
178. Natchez Under the Hill
179. Needlecase (aka Latch Key)
180. New Five Cents
181. New Money
182. Nixon’s Farewell (Curtis Bouterse)
183. North Carolina Breakdown
184. Oh My Little Darling
185. Oklahoma Rooster
186. Old Belle Cow (2 part)
187. Old Belle Cow (3 part)
188. Old Bunch of Keys
189. Old Horse and Buggy
190. Old Joe Clark
191. Old Melinda
192. Old Molly Hare
193. Old Mother Flannigan
194. Old Savannah (Beverly Smith)
195. Old Yellow Dog Come Trotting Through the
196. Meeting House
197. Ora Lee
198. Opera Reel (aka The Celebrated Opera Reel)
199. Orvetta Waltz
200. Over the Waterfall
201. Pikes Peak
202. Polly Put the Kettle On
203. Pig Ankle Rag
204. Policeman
205. Possum in the Well
206. Possum on a Rail
207. Porter’s Reel
208. Quince Dillon’s High D
209. Ragtime Annie
210. Railroad Through the Rocky Mountains (aka
211. Marmaduke’s Hornpipe)
212. Rainy Day
213. (The) Rattlesnake
214. Rattlesnake Bit the Baby
215. Red Bird
216. Red Fox Waltz
217. Red Haired Boy (aka Little Begger Man)
218. Richmond Cotillion
219. Rickett’s Hornpipe
220. Rock That Cradle Lucy
221. Rock the Cradle Joe (1)
222. Rock the Cradle Joe (2)
223. Roaring River
224. Rochester Schottische
225. Rocky Mountain Goat
226. Rocky Mountain Hornpipe
227. Rocky Pallet
228. Rocky Road to Jordan
229. Rolling River
230. Roscoe
231. Run Down Boot
232. Run Rabbit Run
233. Rye Straw (aka Joke on the Puppy)
234. Saddle Up the Gray
235. Sailing Over England
236. Saint Anne’s Reel
237. Sally Anne Johnson
238. Sal’s Got Mud Between Her Toes
239. Salty River Reel
240. Sandy Boys
241. Sandy River Belle
242. Sarah Armstrong (collected as Old Reel)
243. Saturday Night Breakdown
244. Seneca Square Dance
245. Shepherd’s Walk
246. Shoes and Stockings
247. Shoo Fly
248. Shortening Bread (Doc Roberts’)
249. Shove That Pig’s Foot a Little Further Into the Fire
250. Shuckin’ the Brush
251. Shuffle About
252. Silly Bill
253. Sleepy Eyed Joe
254. Sleepy Eyed John
255. Snake River Reel (Peter Lippincott)
256. Snowbird
257. Soldier’s Joy
258. Spotted Pony
259. Star of Bethlehem
260. Staten Island Hornpipe
261. Step Around Johnny
262. Sugar Hill
263. Sugar in the Gourd
264. Tater Patch
265. Temperance Reel (aka Teatotalers Reel)
266. Texas
267. Texas Gals
268. Texas Quick Step (aka Rachael)
269. That’s My Rabbit, My Dog Caught It
270. Thread the Needle
271. Three Forks of Reedy
272. Three Thin Dimes
273. Three Way Hornpipe
274. Tom and Jerry
275. Tomahawk
276. Tombigbee Waltz
277. Too Young to Marry (1)
278. Too Young to Marry (2)
279. Triangle Blues (formerly misnamed Under the Parasol)
280. Train on the Island
281. Trot Along My Honey
282. Trouble on My Mind
283. Wake Up Susan (1)
284. Wake Up Susan (2)
285. Valley Forge
286. Waiting for the Boatsman
287. Waldorf Reel
288. Walk Along John to Kansas
289. Walk Old Shoe (with a Heel Come a Draggin’)
290. Walking in My Sleep
291. Washington’s March
292. Waterbound
293. Ways of the World
294. Whistling Rufus (aka Way Down South)
295. West Fork Gals
296. Whiskey Before Breakfast
297. Whitesburg
298. Wild Hog in the Woods
299. Wild Horses at Stony Point
300. Woodchopper’s Reel
301. Year of Jubilo (aka Lincoln’s Gunboats)
302. Yellow Barber
303. Y.Z. Hamilton’s Special Breakdown
304. Yellow Gals
305. Yellow Rose of Texas

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