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OLD COON DOG [3]. AKA - "My Old Coon Dog," "Way Down in Hackensack." American, Reel and Air (cut time). A Major. AEae tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune is from the playing of fiddler Arthur Cush Holston, recorded at the Florida Folk Festival. Mr. Holston played the tune quickly and energetically, and sang the following couplet:
Somebody stole my old coon dog,]]
I wish they'd bring him back;
To run the big dogs o`er the fence,
The little ones thru the crack.
Kentucky fiddler Doc Roberts recorded the song/tune in 1928 as "Way Down in Hackensack."