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WANT TO GO TO MEETING AND GOT NO SHOES. Old‑Time, Breakdown. USA, Mississippi. A Major. Aeac#.
AABBC. The melody of the first phrase is similar to “Johnson Gal(s).” The tune is better known as “Calico ” from the rhyme:
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Don’t care where in the world I go,
Can’t get around for the calico.
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Tom Rankin (1985) believes the title “Want to go to Meeting and Got No Shoes” is “almost certainly” the second line of a rhyme as well. The source, Frank Kittrell (b. 1871) of Lauderdale County, Mississippi, learned the tune from his uncle David Kittrell of the same county and recalled going to a party when he was ten years old (c. 1881) and hearing his uncle fiddle it while a cousin seconded on the straws. In 1939, when he recorded the tune, he told one of the collectors that, “Nowadays, they are playing ‘Turkey in the Straw’ and all this classical stuff.” Mississippi Department of Archives and History AH‑002, Frank Kittrell – “Great Big Yam Potatoes: Anglo American Fiddle Music from Mississippi” (1985. Originally recorded for the Library of Congress in 1939).
CORNSTALK FIDDLE (AND SHOESTRING BOW). Old‑Time, Breakdown. USA; Kentucky, Mississippi, Arkansas. G Major. Standard. AABB. The title appears in a list of traditional Ozark Mountain fiddle tunes compiled by musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph, published in 1954. It was recorded by Mississippi fiddler Frank Kittrell for the Library of Congress in 1939 (AFS LC 3035 B2). Although Davenport's tune is not "Cotten Eyed Joe," the title "Cornstalk Fiddle" may be in some locales a floating or alternate title for "Cotten‑Eyed Joe," a line of whose ditty goes:
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Cornstalk fidde, shoestring bow,
Look out Boys (or, Play a little tune), says Cotten‑Eyed Joe.
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The ditty that Davenport occasionally sang with the tune went:
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My bow’s sugar, my bow’s sweet;
My bow’s sugar and she can’t be beat.
Cornstalk fiddle and a shoestring bow (x4)
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Jeff Titon (2001) says the ‘B’ part of Davenport’s tune is similar to that of two other of his tunes: it is nearly identical to the ‘B’ part of “Sugar in My Coffee-O,” and close to “Open the Gate and Walk on Through .” Titon finds it a variant of “Grapevine Twist ,” printed in the publications of Howe and Kerr in the 19th century. The melody also turns up in Lomax and Lomax’s Our Singing Country (1941, pgs. 68-69) in a song called “The Bank of the Arkansas,” collected from a woman in Texas. Source for notated versions: Clyde Davenport (Monticello, Wayne County, Ky., 1990), learned from his father [Phillips, Titon]. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, Vol. 1), 1994; pg. 56. Titon (Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes), 2001; No. 28, pg. 62. Berea College Appalachian Center AC002, Clyde Davenport – “Puncheon Camps” (1992).
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