Name: Jaybird Died With the Whooping Cough
Duration: P00H03M37S
Description: Also known as "Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss", this is a fiddle tune backed by banjo and guitar with an incidental sung verse. It is in D with fiddle tuned to high bass EADA and banjo tuned to aEAC#E.

Jaybird Died With the Whooping Cough

from Saro by Matokie Slaughter, Alice Gerrard, Virgie Richardson

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Also known as "Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss", this is a fiddle tune backed by banjo and guitar with an incidental sung verse. It is in D with fiddle tuned to high bass EADA and banjo tuned to aEAC#E.

lyrics

Jaybird died with the whooping cough
Sparrow caught the colic
Along came a frog with a fiddle on his back
Inquiring the way to the frolic.

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from Saro, released January 1, 2013
Matokie Slaughter-banjo
Alice Gerrard-fiddle, vocal
Virgie Richardson-guitar

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Alice Gerrard Durham, North Carolina

A singer and songwriter, Alice’s recordings with Hazel Dickens during the 1960s and ’70s influenced a generation of women musicians from Laurie Lewis to the Judds. Nominated for a Grammy in 2015, she was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Assoc. Hall of Fame in 2017. A documentary film about Alice, "You Gave Me a Song" premiered at the Full Frame Independent Film Festival in 2019. ... more

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