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T:Single-Footing Horse
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L:1/8
R:Reel
D:Folkways FW31007, Arthur Smith - Milk 'em in the Evening Blues" (1968)
F:https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/single-footing-horse
Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz
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SINGLE FOOTING HORSE. American, Reel (cut time). USA, Tennesse. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. From influential Tennessee musician Fiddlin' Arthur Smith. The Single-Footing Horse [1] is a light breed of good conformation, attractive in appearance and smooth riding. The term ‘single-footing’ stems from the fact that at the fastest speeds the horse travels with one foot on the ground at a time.
I always did love a black horse and I had a beauty, a single-footer named Peacock. He could travel like the wind and had the best endurance I ever saw in a horse. Everybodywas trying to make a deal to get hold of him. They even tried to win him as a stake in a gambling game.I couldn't part with him, for we had been pals too long.[1]
Additional notes Source for notated version : - Tim O'Brien [Phillips]; Fiddlin' Arthur Smith [Maloy/Devil's Box].
Printed sources : - Stephen F. Davis (Devil's Box, vol. 19, No. 1, Spring, 1985; p. 27. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1), 1994; p. 223. Welling (Welling’s Hartford Tunebook), 1976; p. 6.
Recorded sources : - Bay 209, "The Gypsy Gyppo String Band" (1977). Folkways FW31007, The McGee Brothers and Arthur Smith – “Milk ‘em in the Evening Blues” (1968).
See also listing at : Hear Arthur Smith's recording at Slippery Hill [2] and youtube.com [3]
