Annotation:Stone's Rag
X:1 T:Stone’s Rag M:C L:1/8 K:C c>d e(g g)a g>e|a>g e(c c)d c2|F>G A c2 d c2|d>c A d2 c A2|B>d B G2 ^F G>A| B>d B G2 ^F G>A|1 c2 A c2 d e2|g8:|2 g>f g(a a)>g e2|c8|| |:a>g e>a g>e a>g|e>a g>e a>g e2|d>c A>c c>A d>c|A>d c>A d>c A2| |1 B>d B G2 ^F G>A|B>d B G2 ^F G>A|c2 A c2 d e2|g4 z^g3:| |2 c' c'3 a4| g>e g(a a)>g e2|e>d e(g g)e d2|c8||
STONE'S RAG. AKA and see "Whiskers (1)," "Lone Star Rag (1)," "Forty-Eight Dogs in the Meathouse." American, Country Rag (whole time). USA; Tennessee (originally), Texas, Missouri, Nebraska. C Major. Standard tuning. AB (Christeson): AA'B (Phillips/1995, Silberberg): AABB' (Brody, Phillips/1989). A popular country rag composed and featured by Oscar Stone, fiddler for Dr. Humphrey Bates' Possum Hunters, a 1920's-1930's Nashville string band. Unfortunately, Stone himself never got to record it. However, it was first recorded in 1928 by his friend Charlie Arrington, a fiddler from Tennessee in fellow Grand Ole Opry band, Paul Warmack's Gully Jumpers. There supposedly are records from the Opry indicating Stone played his tune on broadcasts at WSM. A closely related melody, “Whiskers (1),” predates Stone’s copyright, Kerry Blech points out. Texas fiddler Bob Wills recorded a close variant of the tune in 1940 under the title “Lone Star Rag (1).”
