Turkey in the straw

A traditional or public-domain selection preserved in the band’s working songbook.

Status: audio/reference
Writer / source: Traditional American fiddle tune; nineteenth-century minstrel/song variants
Rights: Public domain in the United States. Traditional arrangement by The Scrips.
Related Scrips recording: No Scrips recording linked yet.

Source research

Documented lineage

Earliest evidence: Early nineteenth-century tune family; published variants before 1850
Aliases / index: Old Zip Coon
Working arrangement: Key G

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Working song sheet

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Turkey in the Straw
Traditional American fiddle tune; nineteenth-century minstrel/song variants
Rights: public-domain-us

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Archive note

reference audio file present; appears in setlist

Chords

G · D