“This looks to be an excellent compilation that will be useful to fiddlers, and anyone who enjoys playing old time fiddle tunes.”
John Lawless Bluegrass Today

Whether you already play old-time music, or you are just getting started, this is the book for you. Dan Levenson’s Master Collection of Old-Time Tunes presents more than 300 tunes in standard notation with suggested chords for you to explore and enjoy. All but a few are traditional or older tunes and are easily searched online to discover their pedigree as well as several recorded versions of them. Some might call this a complete repertoire in a book in the following sense: It is a large (though not encyclopedic) collection of old-time fiddle tunes played in today’s sessions. Learning the tunes in this book will give you a solid old-time repertoire that would allow you to join in jams in the many communities playing old-time music today.

The Tunes
(In order as they appear in the book)

Ain’t Gonna Get No Supper Here Tonight
Altamont
Angelina Baker (aka Angeline the Baker)
Antelope Gap
Arkansas Traveler
Avalon Quickstep
And the Cat Came Back
Barlow Knife (John Salyer)
Barlow Knife (Song)
Banjo Tramp
Been to the East, Been to the West
Big Eyed Rabbit
Big John McNeil
Big Scioto
Bill Cheatam
Billy in the Low Ground
Black Eyed Suzianna (aka Susiana)
Black Cat in a Briar Patch
Black Hills Waltz
Black Jack Grove
Blackbird Says to the Crow
Boatman
Bob Tailed Mule
Booth Shot Lincoln
Bowl-a-Rama
Breaking Up Christmas
Briar Picker Brown
Broken Down Gambler
Buck Mountain
Buffalo Gals (KY version in G)
Buffalo Gals (Common version in G)
Buffalo Gals (in A)
Buckin’ Dun
Bull at the Wagon
Camp Chase
Camp Meeting on the 4th of July
Candy Girl
Chase the Squirrel
Chattanooga
Cincinnati Hornpipe
Cherokee Shuffle (in A)
Cherokee Shuffle (in D)
Chinese Breakdown
Climbing the Golden Stairs
Chinquapin Hunting (in A)
Chinquapin Hunting (in D – Stamper)
Coast Is Clear
Cluck Old Hen
Colored Aristocracy
Cookhouse Joe
Crow Little Rooster
Crook Brothers Breakdown
Crow Creek
Cuffy
Cuckoo’s Nest in D
Cuckoo’s Nest 2 in A (aka Richmond)
Dance All Night with a Bottle in My Hand
Devil Eat the Groundhog
Dinah
Doctor, Doctor
Dogs in the Dishes
Double File
Dry and Dusty
Drunken Hiccups
Ducks on the Mill Pond
Dubuque
Duck River
Ducks in the Pond
Duke of Kent’s Waltz
(Mr.) Fishar’s Hornpipe (aka Fisher’s Hornpipe)
Durang’s Hornpipe
Dusty Miller
Ebenezer
Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss
(in D aka Western Country)
Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss
(in G from The Tar Heel Rattlers)
Flying Clouds (aka Flying Cloud Cotillion)
Elzic’s Farewell
Five Miles From Town
Flying Indian
Folding Down the Sheets
Forked Deer
Fortune
Fun’s All Over
Gaston
George Booker
Georgia Railroad
Gilsaw
Get Off Your Money
Give the Fiddler a Dram
Girl I Left Behind
Glory Medley
Goodbye Girls, I’m Going to Boston
Going Up Town
Goodbye My Little Darling
Grey Cat on a Tennessee Farm
Grand Picnic
Grasshopper Sitting on a Sweet Potato Vine
Greasy Coat (Hammons)
Greasy String (Tommy Jarrell)
Greasy String (Melvin Wine)
Great Big Taters in a Sandy Land
Green Willis (aka The Raw Recruit)
Grey Eagle
Grub Springs
Hangman’s Reel
Happy Hollow
Half Past Four
Hell and Scissors
Henry Reed’s Breakdown
Hey Little Girl Do What You Want
High Yellow
Hollow Poplar
Home With the Girls in the Morning
Hooker’s Hornpipe
Hop Light Ladies (aka Miss McLeod’s Reel)
Hunt the Buffalo
I Don’t Love Nobody
Icy Mountain
I’m Going to Get My Mustache Blacked
Indian Ate the Woodchuck
Jackie Wilson
Indian Corn (aka Ol’ Woodard’s Tune)
I’ve Got No Honey Babe Now
Jaybird
Jaybird Died of the Whooping Cough
Jeff City
Jeff Sturgeon
Jenny on the Railroad
Jimmy in the Swamp
Jimmy Shank
John Brown’s Dream
John Brown’s March
John Henry
John Lover’s Gone
John Sharp’s Reel
John Stenson’s #2
Johnny Cope
Johnny Don’t Get Drunk
Johnson Boys
Johnson Gals
Jonah in the Windstorm
Juliann Johnson
Jump in the Well My Pretty Little Miss
Jump Jim Crow
Kash Kersey
Just From the Fountain
Katy Hill
Kansas City Reel
Lady of the Lake 1
Lady of the Lake 2
Ladies on the Steamboat
Leather Britches
Liberty
Little Burnt Potato
Little Betty Brown
Little Billy Wilson
Little Dutch Girl
Little Girl with Her Hair Down Behind
Little Sadie
Log Chain
Logan County Blues
Love Somebody
Lonesome Train
Lost Indian (Ed Haley)
Maggots in the Sheep Hide
Magpie
Martha Campbell
Meadow Prancer (Ryck Kaiser)
Merry Blacksmith
McMichen’s Reel (aka Hog Trough Reel)
Mike in the Wilderness
Mississippi Sawyer
Mole in the Ground
Monkey on a Dogcart
Money Musk
Money Musk (Wooliver’s)
Moses Hoe the Corn
Muddy Roads
Natchez Under the Hill
Needlecase (aka Latch Key)
New Five Cents
New Money
Nixon’s Farewell (Curtis Bouterse)
North Carolina Breakdown
Oh My Little Darling
Oklahoma Rooster (aka Ten Strike)
Old Belle Cow (2 part)
Old Belle Cow (3 part)
Old Bunch of Keys
Old Horse and Buggy
Old Joe Clark
Old Melinda
Old Molly Hare
Old Mother Flannigan
Old Savannah (Beverly Smith)
Old Yellow Dog Come Trotting Through the Meeting House
Ora Lee
Opera Reel (aka The Celebrated Opera Reel)
Orvetta Waltz
Over the Waterfall
Pikes Peak
Polly Put the Kettle On
Pig Ankle Rag
Policeman
Possum in the Well
Possum on a Rail
Porter’s Reel
Quince Dillon’s High D
Ragtime Annie
Railroad Through the Rocky Mountains (aka Marmaduke’s Hornpipe)
Rainy Day
(The) Rattlesnake
Rattlesnake Bit the Baby
Red Bird
Red Fox Waltz
Red Haired Boy (aka Little Begger Man)
Richmond Cotillion
Rickett’s Hornpipe
Rock That Cradle Lucy
Rock the Cradle Joe (1)
Rock the Cradle Joe (2)
Roaring River
Rochester Schottische
Rocky Mountain Goat
Rocky Mountain Hornpipe
Rocky Pallet
Rocky Road to Jordan
Rolling River
Roscoe
Run Down Boot
Run Rabbit Run
Rye Straw (aka Joke on the Puppy)
Saddle Up the Gray
Sailing Over England
Saint Anne’s Reel
Sally Anne Johnson
Sal’s Got Mud Between Her Toes
Salty River Reel
Sandy Boys
Sandy River Belle
Sarah Armstrong (collected as Old Reel)
Saturday Night Breakdown
Seneca Square Dance
Shepherd’s Walk
Shoes and Stockings
Shoo Fly
Shortening Bread (Doc Roberts’)
Shove That Pig’s Foot a Little Further Into the Fire
Shuckin’ the Brush
Shuffle About
Silly Bill
Sleepy Eyed Joe
Sleepy Eyed John
Snake River Reel (Peter Lippincott)
Snowbird
Soldier’s Joy
Spotted Pony
Star of Bethlehem
Staten Island Hornpipe
Step Around Johnny
Sugar Hill
Sugar in the Gourd
Tater Patch
Sugarbaby
Temperance Reel (aka Teatotalers Reel)
Texas
Texas Gals
Texas Quick Step (aka Rachael)
That’s My Rabbit, My Dog Caught It
Thread the Needle
Three Forks of Reedy
Three Thin Dimes
Three Way Hornpipe
Tom and Jerry
Tomahawk
Tombigbee Waltz
Too Young to Marry (1)
Too Young to Marry (2)
Triangle Blues (formerly misnamed Under the Parasol)
Train on the Island
Trot Along My Honey
Trouble on My Mind
Wake Up Susan (1)
Wake Up Susan (2)
Valley Forge
Waiting for the Boatsman
Waldorf Reel
Walk Along John to Kansas
Walk Old Shoe (with a Heel Come a Draggin’)
Walking in My Sleep
Washington’s March
Waterbound
Ways of the World
Whistling Rufus (aka Way Down South)
West Fork Gals
Whiskey Before Breakfast
Whitesburg
Wild Hog in the Woods
Wild Horses at Stony Point
Woodchopper’s Reel
Year of Jubilo (aka Lincoln’s Gunboats)
Yellow Barber
Y.Z. Hamilton’s Special Breakdown
Yellow Gals
Yellow Rose of Texas