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X:1 T:Get off Your Money S:The Stripling Brothers, Charlie (1896-1966) and Ira (1898-1967), west Alabama. M:C| L:1/8 Q:"Fast" R:Reel D:Vocalion 5441 (78 RPM), The Stripling Brothers (1929) F:https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/get-your-money Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:C ef|g2^f2g2a2|ge2 c- cAcA|^G-A2B cdcA|G6ef| g2^f2g2a2|ge2 c- cABA|^G-A2c BAB2|d6 ef| g2^f2g2a2|ge2 c- cAcA|^G-A2B cdcA|G6-G^G-| A2B2c2d2|ea2g- g2f2|A4B4|c6z|| +slide+e-|e^de2 =d4 c4|F3(E F)EFG|F2d3cA2|G2EF GFGA| G2(_B=B)- B(_B=B2)|g4 g4-|g2a2- aga2|g4 g4-| g2a2-age2|c2(E2 F)EFG|F2d3cA2|G2EF GFGA| G2(_B=B)- B(_B=B2)|g4 g4-|g2f-e- e(Bd2)|c8-|c4|| +slide+A^GA2|c8-|c4 A^GA2|c4A4|G4 (^D2E2)| C8-|C4 +slide+A^GA2|c8-|c4 A^GA2|c4A4|G4 (^D2E2)| [M:6/4]C6 ^d-e-e^de2|[M:C|]d4+slide+B4|[M:6/4]G6 a3g e2||[M:C|]c6||

GET OFF YOUR MONEY. American, Country Rag (cut time). USA, Alabama. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABB'C. A three part, fast county reel or one of his 'ragtime breakdowns', as fiddler Charlie Stripling (1896-1966) called them. "Get off Your Money" was recorded in September, 1929, at the Stripling Brothers recording session in Chicago, Ill., for Brunswick Records, but not released for almost a year (8/15/30) on the subsidiary Vocalion label.

Additional notes

Source for notated version: - Charlie Stripling [1] (1896-1966, Pickens and Larkin Counties, west Alabama)[Milliner & Koken, Phillips].

Printed sources : - Milliner & Koken (Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes), 2011; p. 234. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), vol. 2, 1995; p. 55.

Recorded sources: -Document DOCD-8007, "The Stripling Brothers Vol. 1 1928 - 1934." Vocalion 5441, Stripling Brothers (Alabama) {1929}. Voyager VRDC 349, Lee Stripling - "Hogs Picking Up Acorns" (2000). Yodel-ay-gee 069, Stairwell Sisters - "Get Off Your Money." The Magnolia Serenaders - "Saturday Night Breakdown" (2013).

See also listing at:
Hear the Stripling Brothers' 1929 recording at Slippery Hill [2] and youtube.com [3]

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