Annotation:Old Granny Rattle-Trap (1)
X:1 T:Old Granny Rattletrap [1] S:Uncle Am Stuart (1853-1926, Morristown, Tenn.) M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel R:Fast D:Vocalion Records 5048 (78 RPM), Uncle Am Stuart (1924) N:AEae tuning (fiddle) F:https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/old-granny-rattletrap-0 Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:A +slide+[A2A2][A2A2] EC E2|[F2A2][F2A2][=G3A3]G|[F2A2][FA][FA] [EA]-[DA][EA][EA]|D-F[FA][FA] [E2A2][E2A2]-| [A2A2][A2A2] [E2A2][EA][EA]|[FA][FA][F2A2] [=G3A3][EA]-|[F2A2][FA][FA] [EA][EA][DA][EA]|[DA]-[FA][FA][FA] [E2A2]e2-|| efec A2d2|e2f2[B3=g3]f|(ef)ed c2Ac|B2G2 A3e| efec A2d2|e2f2[B3=g3]f|(ef)ed c2Ac|B2G2 A4|| "+"e2"+"e2"+"E2"+"e2|"+"E2[E2A2]-|[F2A2][F2A2] [=G3A3]E|[F2A2] [FA][FA] [EA][EA][EA][EA]|[FA][FA][FA][FA] [E2A2]"+"e2| "+"E2"+"A2"+"E2[E2A2]-|[F2A2][F2A2] [=G3A3]E|[F2A2] [FA][FA] [EA][EA][EA][EA]|[FA][FA][FA][FA] [E2A2] +slide+[A2A2]-||
OLD GRANNY RATTLE-TRAP [1]. AKA and see "Granny Will Your Dog Bite? (1)" Old-Time, Breakdown. USA; Tennessee, Arkansas. The title appears in a list of traditional Ozarks Mountian fiddle tunes compiled by musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph, published in 1954. Z"Old Granny Rattle-Trap" was recorded by Vocalion in 1924 by Ambrose Gaines "Uncle Am" Stuart [1] (1853–1926, Morristown, Tenn.).
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"Old Granny Rattle-Trap" was also recorded for the Library of Congress (9494A2) in 1949 from the playing of Bascon Lamar Lunsford, who sang:
Old Granny Rattletrap, what's you doin' there?
Runnin' through the cotton patch hard as I can tear.
This lyric was also sung to "Old Granny Blair." There is also a field recording of Madison County, N.C., fiddler Bill Hensley playing his version of the tune, which he learned from his father[1]. Hensley's father, grandfather and two uncles were all accomplished fiddlers.