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Old-Time TOTW #210 is Green Back Dollar from the playing of Patrick "Pat" Amable Tierney (2 December 1887--27 January 1953) of Pottawatomie County, OK. He was the son of Thomas Tierney (1870-1899) and Theresa Toupin (1870-1933). He married Alice Wise (1889-1919) on 19 January 1906. After Alice died, he married Myrtle L. Glass Prichard (1885-1964) in 1920. (source: Ancestry and public documents) His surname is often spelled "Turney," but most documents and his grave are listed as "Tierney." Thede uses "Turney." His mother, Theresa Toupin, was part Native American. Her brother, Paul Toupin, was an influential fiddler in the area, according to Thede. She states: "Some folk virtuosos have veritable schools of followers who play in [the] same style as the master, and play many of his melodies. Such a rugged character was Uncle Paul Toupin, or Toupan, who played for dances long before statehood, his popularity as a musician extending from southern Kansas down into Oklahoma as far south as Stonewall in what is now Pontotoc County. Uncle Paul has long ago crossed the bar, but a veritable school of fiddlers who sprang up under his tutelage still keep alive his inimitable style of playing." Thede goes on to name some fiddlers, among them "Pat Turney" and "two Turney boys, Louis and Mansell, who...have made Uncle Paul's tunes famous over the radio." Thede seems to imply that Paul Toupin (1861-1932) was known to all as "Uncle Paul," which may have been the case, but in reality, he actually was Pat Tierney's maternal uncle. The last tune in The Fiddle Book, Uncle Paul, is unquestionably named in his honor. Theresa Toupin Tierney's father's name was Amable, and that was given to Pat for his middle name. Pat Tierney had many children, of whom two sons went on to be fiddlers and musicians. Lewis "Louie" Eugene Tierney (3 July 1910--3 December 1964) played in various small bands and ensembles. He fiddled and doubled on sax in The Texas Playboys. He was with them from 1940-1947. Tierney died from a tragic accident two and a half hours after his 1959 Sedan was struck by a Texas & Pacific passenger train. Lewis was a musician by trade, and at the time of his death, was working with Dale White Music Company as a piano tuner. He is buried next to his father, Pat. Mancel Vivian Tierney (21 September 1912--13 March 1962) is mentioned in The Fiddle Book as being a fiddler. His WW2 draft registration mentions that he played with a band called the Village Boys. He made several recordings with them and was a well-known jazz pianist. The photo on the wall in the video's introduction (and at the end of the video) shows the Toupin sisters, l. to r. front: Mary Margaret and Theresa (Pat Tierney's mother); back row l. to r. Madeline, Amanda, and Adele. It appears the women are all in mourning, and this photo might have been taken in 1906 after the death of their father, Amable Toupin. Green Back Dollar is better known to today's fiddlers as "Crow Little Rooster." The Collins family also played the tune and called it by the latter name. The tune is not related to the tune of the same name from fiddler Howdy Forrester that is usually played in the key of C. Traditional Tune Archive includes Tierney's Green Back Dollar (notated in The Fiddle Book in the key of A) with the entry of Forrester's tune and makes no connection with Crow Little Rooster. Thede gives a bit of background of paper money (called "green backs") first introduced in February 1862 and then mentions: "When the greenbacks began to trickle into the yankee rural communities they became the inspiration for the beginnings of a tune known as Green Back Dollar. Other fiddlers revised, added to, and omitted parts until the version below reached Oklahoma along with the early white settlers." This video is dedicated to the memory of Lewis "Louie" Tierney, who was born on the day this video is airing, 112 years ago. Joining me are friends Stephen Rapp on banjo (Kent, OH) and Jeanie Thieken on guitar (Hocking Hills, OH) Jeanie, along with Nick Weiland and Mark Barsamian, play in the band Jeanie and the Dreamers. Check them out at:   / jeanieandthedreamers   My Patreon: www.patreon.com/paulkirk Old-Time TOTW group on Facebook:   / 33100.  . Stephen Rapp's YouTube channel:    / rappstephen