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Annotation:Hell on the Nine Mile
X:1 T:Hell on the Nine Mile T:Trouble on the Nine Mile N:From the playing of Uncle Dick Hutchison (1897-1986, Disney, N:northeast Oklahoma) M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel Q:"Moderately Quick" D:Hutchinson H-119, Uncle Dick Hutchison - "Old Time Fiddlin'" (rare, OOP). D:MSOTFA 115, Uncle Dick Hutchison - "Sharecropper's Blues" (2015. Recorded D:c. 1960 at the Lake Eucha Game Reserve near Tulsa, OK., by Fiddlin' Dee DeRyke). D:https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/trouble-nine-mile Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:D A,2-|A,2[B,D]-[CD]- [D2D2] DE |FAAB A3(A|BA)dA BA[FA][DA]|[E2A2] EF EDB,G,| A,2 [B,D]-[DD-] [D2D2] DE|[FA]-[A2A2]B [A3A3]A|BAdA BAFB|1AFE-F [A,2D2]:|2AFE-F [A,3D3]|| (f/g/|a2)a2a2a2|f-edf edB2|a-b3 b2b2|abaf edd2| e-a3- a2ba|f-edf edB-d|A2dA BAFB|1 AFE-F [A,3D3]:|2AFE-F [A,2D2]||
HELL ON THE NINE MILE. AKA and see "Dubuque," "Lighthouse," "Old Dubuque." American, Reel (cut time). D Major. ADae or Standard tuning (fiddle). "Hell on the Nine Mile" is a version of a tune with several names and variants, although the most prominent is "Dubuque." The title seems to be a place-name and may refer to Nine Mile Flat, outside Oklahoma City, or Ninemile Creek, a stream in west-central Oklahoma.
