Black Snake Bit Me on the Toe

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 BLACK SNAKE BIT ME ON THE TOE. AKA - "Blacksnake Bit Me on the Toe." Old-Time, Breakdown. D Major. DDad tuning (fiddle). The tune is a version of "The Pateroller Song" or "Run Johnny/Smoke/Nigger Run," which supposedly dates to the slave rebellions of the 1830's and the attempts of the plantation owners to establish organized patrols to prevent clandestine meetings and runaways. Source for notated version: learned by Indiana fiddler Clyde Davenport from his father [Carlin]. Recorded source: Rounder 0197, Bob Carlin - "Banging and Sawing" (1985). __NORICHEDITOR__