Annotation:Don't Let Your Deal Go Down (1)

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 DON'T LET YOUR DEAL GO DOWN [1]. Old-Time, Bluegrass, Texas-Style; Country Rag. USA; Mo., Texas. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. This very popular song and fiddle tune is built on a circle of fifths. It has wide dissemination throughout the South, Midwest and Southwest, in a number of sub-genres.  Source for notated version: Phillips credits the 'B' part to Texas fiddler Bob Wills.  Printed sources: Phillips (Fiddlecase TuneBook), 1989; p. 16.  Recorded sources: Caney Mountain Records CLP 228, Lonnie Robertson (Mo.) - "Fiddle Favorites." Voyager 309, Benny & Jerry Thomasson - "The Weiser Reunion: a Jam Session" (1993). See also listing at Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index.

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