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Just heard this on a link shared on Facebook, and it caught my fancy. I have some more learning to do. Really, this is just here to help me remember that this tune exists!

Last Christmas I asked for and received a book of tunes titled Mandolin Uff-Da, Let's Dance, by Bruce Dix. I'm really enjoying it, although this is the only tune that I've attempted so far. As you can hear, I generally don't play it on the banjo.

This is my memory of the song as done by the Deseret String Band. I should probably have titled it just "Home With the Girls in the Morning." There is another verse that I had forgotten: When I was a younger man, Come and hear my story Sang and danced the whole night long Came home with the girls in the morning

Sam and Elzie was posted as a tune of the week, and I thought it sounded familiar. On asking, I was reminded that the Illinois name is Crooked Road, and I had played along with it 6 days previously! I've been messing with it on the fiddle, but I had to clip out a small bit of what I had recorded to end up with something that had the minimum number of mistakes.

A more correct title would be "Untitled Tune on Page 12 of the Hamblen Collection." I got this from a posting by Stefan Curl on the banjo hangout: http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/200408 He got it from "the Hamblen Collection, a collection of tunes originally played by David Hamblen (1809-1893) and notated by his grandson A. Porter Hamblen." I just had to work it out--I've never played anything like that before.

I've been trying to learn this for a couple of years, but it just won't stick with me. OK, I've done a second recording, this time in A. It's closer to what I think I want it to be.

If I recorded it again, I'd do it a bit differently.

Kind of like "Flop-Eared Mule" but different.

I had fun playing along with this last Saturday, so I searched for a version to learn from on Youtube. Lots to choose from! Fun tune.

I can rairly play this when I want to, it usually shows up when I plan to play St Annes' Reel. In this case I was beginning to work out one of those polkas, either Sean Ryan or Dennis Murphy.