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Played by Dallas Stamper in 1926 at a picnic in Dixon, Missouri. I never heard this tune again until about 1957, when a fiddler in Indiana played a similar version at a square dance. In 1968 I visited this fiddler, who reportedly had learned it years ago, minus any name, from an old fiddler living along the Wabash River.

AKA Jan's Tune

This version is near most versions of "Cotton Eyed Joe." Tradition around my home town is that "Cotton Eyed Joe" required special tuning of the fiddle and was a good square-dance tune. This version meets neither criterion.

Played by a few Missouri fiddlers in the depression days of the early 1930's, but it is seldom heard any more.

The Old-Time Fiddler's Repertory states "another Bill Caton (Katon) tune". Does not say who is fiddling

The Old-Time Fiddler's Repertory states "another Bill Caton (Katon) tune". Does not say who is fiddling.

AKA Caton's or Katon's Hornpipe

AKA Breakdown 158

An adaptation from the well-known song. This tune is an exception to my lack of appreciation for songs, minus their words, being used as fiddle tunes

The fiddlers who played for me did not use the "Georgia lick," a bowing technique of fairly recent origin, which generates a syncopated accent. It is often used in "Beaumont Rag" and other tunes but can be quickly overdone, since it obscures the beat and throws accompanists off stride. It is one of the modern divertissements in present-day fiddling known as "hokum." Recorded by Bill Driver and Red Williams.

Played regularly at square dances in El Paso, Texas, in the 1940s

Taken from memory. I have never heard this tune outside of Pulaski County, Missouri.