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Banjo Hangout Top 100 Old Time Songs

Top 100 Old Time Songs banjo songs which Banjo Hangout members have uploaded to the website.

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Little Princess Footsteps

Little Princess Footsteps

I learned this C tune from a 1931 Okeh recording of the Mississippi old time string bad the Newton County Hillbillies, f... Read more

12 Nov 2022

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Single Girl

Single Girl

My take on Roscoe Holcomb's (Rosko Halcomb's) classic 2ftl version of "Single Girl" in open D tuning (f#DF#AD)

7 Jul 2022

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Needle Case

Needle Case

2010 on Jason Burns #3

29 May 2022

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Four Cent Cotton (TOTW)

Four Cent Cotton (TOTW)

A bit of Prohibition and Depression era history here, the poor farmer couldn't make enough money raising cotton. Four C... Read more

29 Jan 2022

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Shoot That Buffalo

Shoot That Buffalo

Elizabeth Cotten learned this tune in 1910 from a man aged about 50. She added the words.

8 Oct 2021

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Lee Sexton's Shady Grove

Lee Sexton's Shady Grove

Two finger thumb lead. Banjo tuned fDGCD.

15 Sep 2021

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Cluck Old Hen

Cluck Old Hen

Clawhammer style, gDGCD (relative). 1964 Gibson RB-175.

3 Sep 2021

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Forty Weight of Gingerbread (TOTW)

Forty Weight of Gingerbread (TOTW)

A fun song to play and sing, Forty Weight of Gingerbread uses some floating lyrics you can cater to your own tastes. It... Read more

12 Mar 2021

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Rose Conley

Rose Conley

Rose Conley, 2 finger thumb lead, based on Grayson & Whittier's 1927 version, tuned a half step or so low out of sta... Read more

5 Mar 2021

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I Wish I was a Mole in the Ground (TOTW)

I Wish I was a Mole in the Ground (TOTW)

Based on Doc Watson's banjo playing, he learned this as a child from his uncle Jake Miller and said it was a courting so... Read more

12 Feb 2021

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