Ranch Radio Song of the Day

TGIFF! Its Fiddle Friday and we bring you Howdy Forrester's 1960 recording of Grandmommy Look At Uncle Sammy. Curious about this tune? Me too, but this is all I could find about it: GRANDMAMMY LOOK AT UNCLE SAM. AKA - "Granny Look at Uncle Sam," "Grandma Take a Look at Uncle Sam," "Run Here Granny Take a Look at Uncle Sam" (Ed Hayley's title). Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, West Virginia, eastern Kentucky, Tennessee. A Dorian/Mixolydian/Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABCC. The tonality keeps shifting between the minor and major throughout the tune. The following ditty was sung to the tune: Run here Grandmammy, look at (Uncle) Sam, 'He's soppin' all the gravey and eatin' all the ham. According to Wilson Douglas, Kentucky fiddler Ed Hayley played this tune, calling it by the above ditty lines. Source for notated version: Howard Forrester who learned it from his Uncle Bob Cates (Hickman, Tennessee) [Phillips]. Printed sources: Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), vol. 2, 1995; p. 57.

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