rare mfers
season 1
card 10
artist notes:
“once i had a fortune, i locked it in my trunk,
lost it all a gamblin, one night when i got drunk
fortune i had it, fortune i lost it,
fortune i lost it all, one night when i got drunk”
-traditional
no one knows who actually wrote this tune - old time fiddle tunes are kind of like memes - they are proliferated and played and enjoyed and reworked or given a different flavor or style depending on who plays them and generally speaking their origins are quite obscure - we do speak of “sources” in old-time music but that hardly qualifies as anything like “authorship” - in this case, for instance, the earliest source recording of “fortune” co...