Tom Berghan Shady Grove played as a round. I heard this in a dream while walking alone through the mountains at night. Recorded August 7, 2009. Luthier and model: Chuck Lee - Vintage Ovilla - Went to see my Shady Grove

She was standing in the door

Her shoes and stockin's in her hand

And her pretty bare feet on the floor

Tune-of the Week, 5/1/09

A crooked tune from Québec. The title translates as "hide your buttocks." There's a little song that goes with the tune. One verse is about a young man following a young lady up a ladder into an apple tree...

(Robin Kearton plays viola on this recording.)

This is Alan Munde's version of the tune - close as I get anyway!

This is Alan Munde's version of the tune - close as I get anyway!

This is Alan Munde's version of the tune - close as I get anyway!

This clawhammer banjo / classical guitar duet (Felipe Ferraz on guitar), originally learned from the traditional klezmer band Budowitz, was proobably composed by Aron Moyshe Kholodenko (1828-1902). It appears on our "And I in the Uttermost West" CD.

This clawhammer banjo / classical guitar duet (Felipe Ferraz on guitar), originally learned from the traditional klezmer band Budowitz, was proobably composed by Aron Moyshe Kholodenko (1828-1902). It appears on our "And I in the Uttermost West" CD.