Shaking Down the Acorns, aka Shaking Off the Acorns


Key: Amix

Form: Reel (Old-time)

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X:1
T:Shaking off the Acorns
T:Shaking down the Acorns [2]
S:Edden Hammons (Pocahontas County, West Virginia)
N:Home recording, 1947
M:C|
L:1/8
N:ADae tuning (fiddle)
D:West Virginia University Press CD SA-1, The Edden Hammons Collection vol. 1 (1999)
F: https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/shaking-acorns
Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz
K:Amix
[A2A2]|([EA]D)[EA]G [A2A2]AB|{B}c2e2 dcBA|G2 [Be]G A2 [Be]G|E2[Ae]B G2[Be]G|
EDEG A2[Ae]B|{cd}c2[A2e2] dcBA|G2 [Be]G- A2 [A4A4]||SAB|ce2G EDEG|
A2 AB c2e2|dcBA G2Bd|[e6e6]e-f|edBA G2 Bd|
g2 ga g2e2|d=cBA G2Bd|+slide+[e6e6]e-f|edBA G2Bd|
gaba g2e2|d=cBA G2[GB]G|+slide+[A2A2]BG E2BG|+slide+[A2A2]BG EDEG|
A2AB {^cd}c2 e2|d^cBA G2[GB]G|[A2A2][A2A2]-[A2A2]AB| [ce]AAG EDEG|
[A2A2] AB (c/d/c) e2|dcBA G2[GB]G|A2[Ae]G E2BG|A2 AG EDEG|
[A2A2] AB (c/d/c) e2|dcBA G2[GB]G|A2[A4A4]S||

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