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DENNY7P
Jun-28-2008, 1:22pm
WHERE TO LOOK--- FOR FREE-OF COURSE

Jim Broyles
Jun-28-2008, 1:56pm
Found these Here (http://www.gourd.com/006L.HTML)
Old Virginia / Granny, Will Your Dog Bite? (two versions)
Old Virginia appears in Volume 2 of George Knauff’s 1839 edition of Virginia Reels. The tune, more commonly known as The Flowers of Edinburgh, was (and still is) widely known throughout the upper south in the years leading up to the Civil War. It’s a fine melody with Scottish origins. The first version of Granny Will Your Dog Bite comes down through the military fife and drum players common to both Civil War armies. Bill Bynum, respected fife scholar, musician, and rap singer, relates that, “according to a 26th North Carolina Regiment veteran’s memoirs, one recruit played Granny Will Your Dog Bite on the fife as he marched to be sworn in.” In another instance, according to Bynum, a member of the 3rd Arkansas is said to have played this tune on the fiddle while preparing to charge at the Battle of Sharpsburg in September of 1862. We learned the second version of Granny Will Your Dog Bite from Bruce Greene. When we went to record this in the studio, we all “fell in the groove,” as they say, and didn’t want to stop playing it. Bruce says it he learned it from Everett Kays of Hickory Grove, KY, who got it from his uncle Clyde Kays. This is one of those traditional tunes that actually includes words. These words appear to have their roots in the play-party tradition of the southern mountains.
Granny will your dog bite cow kick cat scratch
Granny will your hen peck sow root the corn patch
Granny will your duck quack old grey goose hatch
Granny will your dog bite no child no
And, from Bruce Greene…
Granny will your dog bite no child no
Daddy cut his biter off a long time ago

Jim Broyles
Jun-28-2008, 2:13pm
These (http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/GRA_GRAPE.htm) are even better. Scroll about 3/4 of the way down.