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 HUMANSVILLE. Old-time, Breakdown. USA, Missouri. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. The title refers to a place-name from the Ozarks, the town of Humansville, Polk County, Missouri. Similarities to the Kentucky "Fun's All Over," and "Hold Old Baldy While I Dance with Josie," and Nebraska fiddler Bob Walters' "Padgett."  Source for notated version: Fred Stoneking (b. 1933, Missouri), learned from Dean Johnston, who may have learned it from Shorty Pruitt, a resident of Humansville [Beisswenger & McCann].  Printed sources: Beisswenger & McCann (Ozarks Fiddle Tunes), 2008; p. 138.  Recorded sources: Rounder CD 0381, Fred Stoneking - "Saddle Old Spike" (1996). Rounder 0436, Earl Ball - "Traditional Fiddle Music of the Ozarks, vol. 2: On the Springfield Plain" (Ball is a resident of Humansville and learned the tune from his grandfather Bishop).  See also listing at: Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources

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