Key: A*
Form: March or reel
ABC: If you know a source, please contribute ABC notation.
MP3: (NOTE: This audio is courtesy of the US Library of Congress and as far as I can determine is only available in the somewhat awkward format below, not as a simple MP3 and not downloadable. This is probably a matter of national security 🙁 )
Sheet Music*: Click image to enlarge.
Sheet Music in PDF: Sweet-Sunny-South
YouTube:
Source: Trad?
Other Tunes in Set: See also Sweet Sunny South (song)
Region: Appalachia, USA
*Notes: This tune is courtesy of the US Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afcreed000047/. It was collected by Alan Jabbour, and the audio recording is likely by Henry Reed, probably recorded in the mid 1960s. It is played in an odd key, possibly C# or maybe an out of tune fiddle, and the sheet music transcription shows it in G.
There seem to be a number of variations on this tune as a song, including a recording with lyrics by Jerry Garcia and David Grissman and this 1927 record by Red Patterson’s Piedmont Log Rollers.