Annotation:Soap in the Washpan
X:1 T:Soap in the Washpan N:From the playing of fiddler and brakeman Andy Palmer N:(1881-1939, Anderson County, north-central Ky.) with Jimmy N:Johnson's String Band M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel D:https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/soap-washpan D:Yazoo 2200, Jimmy Johnson String Band - "Kentucky Mountain Music vol. 3" (2003) D:Champion CH 16516 (78 RPM), Jimmy Johnson's String Band (1932) Z:Andrew Kuntz K:C "*"[G,2G2]AB cdcB| AF[F2A2][F2A2][F2A]|[G,2G2]Ad BGBG|AGGG G2G2| [C2E2]cc cdcB|AFF2 [A,2F2][A,2F2]|[G,3G3]A Bd3|c3cc4:| g2 ga g2 eg|aged c4|a4 a4|(ab)ag ed c2| +slide+[e4e4][e4e4]|efed cAGA|Bcdc BGAG|1c2 (3dcB c4:|2c2 (3dcB c2S|| P:Substitutions: "*"[_E2B2]-|[E2c2][Ec][Ec] G2[Ec]B|
SOAP IN THE WASHPAN. AKA - "Soapsuds in the Washpan." AKA and see "Hot Corn." American, Reel (cut time). USA, Kentucky. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Soap in the Washpan" was recorded by Andy Palmer (b. 1881, Anderson County, Ky., the featured fiddler and vocalist for north-central Kentucky's Jimmy Johnson String Band, in Richmond, Indiana, in August, 1932. It was released on Champion Records, a subsidiary of Gennett. The tune is played in Franklin County as "Hot Corn," and is related to the Stripling Brothers' "Horse Shoe Bend," according to Guthrie Meade (1980).
