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Rosin Gum/Sal Let Me Chaw Your Rosin Some
Old-Time Song and breakdown. Southeast. Not widely known
ARTIST: ROSIN GUM Sung by: Lowell Harness Recorded in Mountain Home, AR 6/15/63; Max Hunter Collection
CATEGORY: Fiddle and Instrumental Tunes
DATE: First recorded Skillet Lickers 1928 by title, Sal, Let Me Chaw Your Rosin Some.
RECORDING INFO: Gid Tanner and his Skillet Lickers 1928 Atlanta Ga. on Co 15267-D; Shelton Brothers and Curly Fox (Ga.) Decca 5137 (78 RPM), {1935}. Recorded for Gennet (GE 16637) by the Tweedy Brothers (W.Va. brothers Henry, George, and Charles playing two fiddles and a piano) in 1930, but unissued. Possum Hunters. In the Pines, Takoma A-1025, LP (196?), trk# 14;
RELATED TO: Fire On the Mountain [Appalachian]
OTHER NAMES: Sal Let Me Chew Your Rosin Some; Let Me Chew Your Rosin Some; Rosin Gum;
SOURCES: Kuntz; Folk Index; Meade.
NOTES: Meade lists “Sal Let Me Chaw Your Rosin Some” under Fire On the Mountain, which tends to be a floating title. The Skillet Lickers version (Version 1) can be heard on-line at Honkingduck, the other version (Version 2) can be heard online at Max Hunter entitled “Rosin Gum [sic]”.
SAL LET ME CHAW YOUR ROSIN SOME
ROSIN GUM Sung by: Lowell Harness
Recorded in Mountain Home, AR 6/15/63
Max Hunter Collection
Cornstalk fiddle and a peavine bow.
Sal stuck a needle in her heel, by Joe.
Rabbits in the pea patch, the bees in the gum.
Sal, let me chew your *rosin gum.
Sal, let me chew your *rosin gum.
Cornstalk fiddle and a peavine bow.
Sal stuck a needle in her heel, by Joe.
Sal stuck a needle in her heel, by Joe.
*rosin some
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