Annotation:Old Coon Dog (3)

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X:1 T:Old Coon Dog [3] N:From fiddler Arthur Cush Holston, recorded at the N:Florida Folk Festival M:C| L:1/8 Q:"" N:AEae tuning (fiddle) D:https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/old-coon-dog Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:A A,B,-|C2 CB, C2 CC|[M:3/2]B,2A,4A,4 EF|[M:5/4]+slide+[A2A2][A2A2]+slice+c4 e2-| [M:C|]e2f2e2c2| B2 AFA2EF|A2A2 c2B2|A6:| |:c-d|e2cc e2cc |B2A4AB|c2ef e2A2|B2-c4c2| e2ff e2c2|{c}B2AA A2EF|A2A2 c2B2|A6:|

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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. Kentucky fiddler Doc Roberts recorded the song/tune in May, 1928, as "My Old Coon Dog" (Gennett 6558). The tune was played energetically by fiddler Arthur Cush Holston, recorded at the Florida Folk Festival. He sang 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.

The couplet (a floating verse, found also in other song/tunes) was in the 1915-16 manuscript of W.S. Black, as heard near Athens, Alabama. Similarly it was in Perrow, 1913, p. 128, heard in Mississippi in 1909.