Annotation:Jones County

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 JONES COUNTY. Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, Mississippi. A Major. AEae tuning (fiddle). AB. Jones County is southwest of Clarke County, Mississippi, where Charles Long recorded the tune for the Library of Congress in 1939. Tom Rankin (1985) calls it a "locally constructed tune" built of familiar phrases with lyrics of local, not national, importance. Gone a whole week to see my love Down in Jones County, Gone a whole week to see my love Down in Jones County. Fair you will and goodbye too, Down in Jones County; Fair you well and goodbye too, Down in Jones County. See also the related "Little Home to Go to (1)."

 Source for notated version: Charles Long (b. 1869, Clarke County, Mississippi) [Rankin].  Printed sources: Rankin, 1985; Notes for "Great Big Yam Potatoes."  Recorded sources: Mississippi Department of Archives and History AH-002, Charles Long - "Great Big Yam Potates: Anglo-American Fiddle Music from Mississippi" (1985).

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