Although much of the traditional music of the American South has long been sustained through oral tradition, tunebooks have also helped to shape the repertoire. This collection incorporates tunes from a broad variety of sources. Ballads, old-time fiddle tunes, work songs, play songs, hymns and spirituals, rags, and blues all find their place here as well as traditional material preformed by groups from Charlie Poole's North Carolina Ramblers and Gid Tanner's Skillet Lickers to Cliff Carlisle tunes and western swing as recorded by Bob Willis and Milton Brown. The transcriptions here are designed to be as clear and easy-to-read as possible, conveying not the minute details of the original performance, but all the information needed to play the tune. Most of the 118 tunes are presented as melody lines in standard notation with lyrics and chord symbols. These "cheat sheets" are meant to serve as a starting point for the performance of this music. This book constitutes a significant resource for both instruction and performance. Tunes included: Alabama Bound All Night Long Blues Arkansas Traveler Banks of the Ohio Beautiful Dreamer Beaumont Rag Been to the East, Been to the West Bile Them Cabbage Down Bill Cheatham Blues Eyes Bring it on Down to My House Carroll County Blues Chicken Roost Blues Cindy Columbus Stockade Blues Cotton-Eyed Jo (Old-Time Version) Cotton-Eyed Joe (Western Swing Version) Crawdad Cripple Creek Croquet Habit Cry Holy Unto the Lord The Cuckoo Devilish Mary Don’t Grieve After Me Don’t Let the Deal Go Down (Texas Fiddle Tune) Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down (Old-Time Song) Dreamy Eyes Waltz Drunkard’s Blues Eighth of January Fiddler’s Reel Fifteen Cents Fire on the Mountain Fisher’s Hornpipe Foggy Mountain Top Ginseng Blues The Girl I Left Behind Glory to the Lamb Great Big Taters Groundhog Ham Beats All Meat Haste to the Wedding He Rambled Hesitation Blues Hills of Roane County Home on the Range How Long I Want to Go Where Jesus Is I Wonder if You Fell the Way I Do Ida Red I’m a Man of Constant Sorrow I’m Troubled Johnny Lover Jessie James June Apple Just a Spoonful Katy Cline Keep Knocking But You Can’t Come In L and N Rag Liberty Living Where the Healing Water Flows Lonesome Road Blues Make Me a Pallet on the Floor Mama Don’t Allow Maple on the Hill Midnight on the Stormy Deep My Home’s Across the Blue Ridge Mountains My Wife Died Saturday Night New River Train Nine-Pound Hammer No Disappointment in Heaven Nobody’s Dirty Business Oh, Mary Don’t Weep Old Joe Clark Oozlin’ Daddy Blues Pass Around the Bottle Pick Poor Robin Clean Red River Valley Ragged But Right Rank Strangers to Me Roll ‘Em on the Ground Roll in my Sweet Baby’s Arms Saint Anne’s Reel Salt River Saro Shady Grove Shady Grove (Modal Version) Sleep, Baby, Sleep Soldier’s Joy Somewhere in Tennessee Sourwood Mountain Stack-O-Lee Blues Sweet Sunny South Take a Drink on Me Tear It Down (bed Slats and All) Texas Hambone Blues Texas Quickstep There’s a Brownskin Gal Down the Road Somewhere The Titanic Tom Cat Blues Turkey in the Straw Two Dollar Bill Under the Double Eagle The Unfortunate Brakeman Wabash Blues Wabash Cannonball Walking Boss Waltz in “D” We Met in the Saddle What’s the Matter with the Mill Whiskey Before Breakfast When I’m Gone Don’t You Grieve White House Blues Wild Horse Wildwood Flower Wish I’d Stayed in the Wagon Yard With My Mother Dead and Gone Wreck of the Old Ninety-Seven