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Annotation:Ruffled Drawers
X:1 T:Ruffled Drawers T:New Five Cents L:1/8 M:2/4 N:The last part is the vocal melody S:Howdy Forrester and Roy Acuff; transcribed by John Hartford B:Stephen F. Davis - Devil's Box, vol. 23, No. 1, Spring 1989 (p. 21) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:D F/G/|Af f/g/f/e/|dB/d/ A/G/F/E/|D/F/A/d/ f/a/f/d/|e4| Af f/g/f/e/|dB B/c/B/c/|AF/D/ E/F/E/F/|D3:| |:F/G/|A/G/F/E/ DF/G/|A/F/E DD|D/F/A/G/ F/D/F/A/|E3 F/G/| A(3A/F/E/ DF/G/|AF/E/ DF/G/|AF/D/ E/F/E/F/|D3:| P:"vocal melody" A/A/A fe|dB B2|A/A/A fd|e3A|AA fe|dB Bd/B/|AF EC|D3||
RUFFLED DRAWERS. AKA and see "New Five Cents (1).” American, Reel (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. See also closely related tunes "Buffalo Nickel (2)" and “Robinson County.” This ditty was sung to the first strain of the tune (collected by John Hartford from fiddler Roy Acuff):
City gal she wears ruffled drawers,
Country gal she wears plain;
My gal she wears no drawers at all,
But she gets there just the same.
When I saw her ruffled drawers,
Her ruffled drawers so fine,
When I saw her ruffled drawers,
I knew I'd make her mine.