Way Up On Clinch Mountain - J. W. Day
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Way Up On Clinch Mountain played by J. W. Day
This song has a tune and some lyrics similar to Rye Whiskey.
Recording place: New York City
Recording date: February 27, 1928
Duration: 3:16
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Lyrics
I tune up my fiddle, I rosen my bow
I make myself welcome whereever I go
- Hiccup oh lordy...
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From archive.org (http://www.archive.org/audio/audio-details-db.php?collection=opensource_audio&collectionid=Jwday)
- Recorded on February 27, 1928 in New York City. J. W. Day was the real name of a fiddler who later performed as Jilson Setters. Jilson Setters, the character, was held out to the public by a folk festival organizer as a modern day Rip Van Winkle. Setters purportedly spent his life in the mountains never to come into contact with the modern world, still retaining vestiges of his English ancestry , not to mention original British ballads. The story was that Setters had recently regained his eyesight and was suffering from culture shock as a result of his exposure to modernity. It was all nonsense, except that he had indeed regained his eyesight through an operation....over twenty years before the creation of the Setters persona. Nevertheless, the public bought the story to such an extent that he even met the King and Queen of England. This tune is a fiddle tune that is also known as "Drunken Hiccups" and has been traced to even older variations in the British Isles.
