The Bluegrass Messengers
Bell Cow, The

Bell Cow, The

Traditional Old-Time Reel; Pa. ARTIST: Southwestern Pa. fiddler James Taylor CATEGORY: Fiddle and Instrumental Tunes DATE: Early 1900’s RECORDING INFO: Hartford, John. Wild Hog in the Red Brush, Rounder 0392, CD (1996), cut# 1 (Squirrel Hunters) Indian Creek Delta Boys. Indian Creek Delta Boys, Davis Unlimited DU 33029, LP (1976), cut# 12

OTHER NAMES: "The Squirrel Hunters," Squirrel Hunting," "Fare Thee Well Sweet Killaroe," "Rooshian Rabbit." SOURCES: Bayard- Dance to the Fiddle; Kuntz, Fiddler's Companion, http://www.ceolas.org/tunes/fc. NOTES: "Bayard (1981) collected this tune from southwestern Pa. fiddler James Taylor who stated this was the name for this tune around the town of Rogersville, Greene County, Pa."(Kuntz, Fiddler's Companion, http://www.ceolas.org/tunes/fc). Taylor supplied this rhyme, sung with the tune:

I had a little dog, and Spotty was his name,
And he used to run the bell cow up and down the lane.
I fed her in the mush pot and milked her in the pail,
And away went the bell cow, stickin' up her tail.

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