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 DIAMOND JOE. Old-Time, Breakdown. USA. D Major. ADae tuning (fiddle). AB (The 'B' part was composed by New York fiddler Steve Uhrik). I'm gonna buy me a sack of flour Cook a hoecake every hour, Diamond Joe better come get me, Diamond Joe. I'm gonna buy me a piece of meat, Cook me a slice but once a week, Diamond Joe you better come get me, Diamond Joe. I'm gonna buy me a sack of meal, Take a hoecake to the field, Diamond Joe come and get me, Diamond Joe. I'm gonna buy me a jug of whiskey, I'm gonna make my baby frisky, Diamond Joe better come get me, Diamond Joe. I'm gonna buy me a jug of rum, I'm gonna give my Ida some, Diamond Joe you better come get me, Diamond Joe.  Source for notated version: Liz Slade (Yorktown, New York) [Kuntz].  Printed sources: Kuntz (Ragged but Right), 1987; p. 277-278. Silberberg (Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern), 2002; p. 35.  Recorded sources: County 514, The Georgia Crackers (a cover name for the Cofer Brothers)- "Hell Broke Loose in Georgia" (orig. rec. 1927). Document Records 8021, The Cofer Brothers - "Georgia Fiddle Bands, vol. 1" (Reissue).

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