Clifton Hicks & Aaron Stephens "Little Gold Fiddle"

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We learned "Little Gold Fiddle" from George Gibson of Knott County, Kentucky. George learned it from his father, Malvin Gibson (b. 1900). The song is a very old cante-fable from England in which a fiddler and his wife take a journey in a merchant’s ship, and the two men make a wager regarding the chastity of the woman. I've found it printed under various titles such as "Merchant and the Fiddler's Wife" and "The Fiddler's Bitch." The only American examples I have found were sung by Mal Gibson of Knott County, Kentucky, and an unidentified singer in Indiana documented during the 1940s.

References:
"The Merchant-man and the Fidlers wife To a Pleasant Northen Tune" (Fr. Coles, Thos. Vere, J. Wright, J. Clarke, W. Thackeray, and T. Passinger (1680 or 1681)

The Diary of Samuel Pepys, volume 4, page 163 (1663)

English Broadside Ballad Archive # 21825

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