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Old-Time TOTW #199 is The Old Yellow Dog Come Trottin' Through the Meeting House from Tennessee fiddler Charles Boyd "Charlie" Acuff (5 December 1919--22 November 2013). He was the son of Evart Acuff (1893-1973) and Reva "Revie" Emma West (1899-1988). His wife was Dorothy Paralee Wallace (1920-2007). Acuff's West family ancestors (on his maternal side) were in North Carolina by c. 1775. Acuff had moved to Blount Co., TN, by the late 1950s. Acuff's father was a fiddler and built his own fiddles. Evart began his first fiddle in 1922 and used tools that were made by his great uncle Lafayette "Fate" Cassady, who was a blacksmith and Civil War soldier. Fate challenged Evart to build a fiddle. If he did so, he could have his tools. Charlie began playing around the age of twelve in the early 1930s. He learned fiddle from his grandfather, Charles Boyd Acuff (1872-1946). Source for above public documents, Ancestry, and relatives. The following is from Charlie Acuff's obituary: "Charlie was famous in old-time Appalachian music as the 'left-handed fiddler.' In 2005, he received a Tennessee Governor's Award in the Arts. The award noted that 'Acuff, known as a first-rate musician and humorous storyteller, comes from a long and distinguished musical family tradition. For 70 years he has played fiddles hand-made by his father, delighting audiences with tunes passed down to him by his grandfather." An article in the Knoxville News in 2005 said, 'While Acuff never pursued music full-time, he made a name for himself when he joined the Lantana Drifters band in 1989. The band began winning musical competitions at various festivals throughout Tennessee and won first place in the old-time band category of the Uncle Dave Macon Days on four separate occasions.' He was a musician in residence at the Museum of Appalachia in Norris, Tennessee, for over two decades." This tune has many name variations. Sometimes the dog is little, big, or old; sometimes it is yellow, and sometimes it is yeller; sometimes it went to the meeting house, and other times it came/come trottin'/a-trottin' through the meeing house. Sometimes the name of the tune is shortened to "Yeller Dog." Apparently, it was common in days gone by for people to bring one's dogs to the meeting house (church). Traditional Tune Archive notes: "The practice [of bringing dogs to church] was not rare at one time, particularly in the South. South Carolina minister Charles Woodmason found it necessary to bar his congregation from bringing their animals with them to church in the late 18th century... he explained, they were...'an affront to the Divine Presence...' Yet, the population was only imitating longstanding practice in Britain. This passage is from James Hall's Travels in Scotland...(London, 1807): "I was amazed to see how much the ministers...are plagued with dogs in their churches. As almost every family has a dog, and some two, and as these dogs generally go with the people to church; so many dogs being collected often fight, and make such a noise during public worship, as not only disturbs the congregation, but endangers the limbs of many. I have seen more than twenty men plying with good cudgels, yet unable to separate a number of dogs fighting in a church. Nay, so much trouble do dogs give in some churches, that there is one appointed to go through the church-yard with a kind of longhandled forceps, which he holds out before him, and with which he wounds the tails, legs, and ears, &c. of the dogs, and thereby keeps the church and church-yard clear of these useful, but totally unnecessary animals in a place of public worship. Indeed, as these long-handled forceps have been found so useful in the Highlands, perhaps they might be of use in some other places; for ladies in too many places bring their lap-dogs to church... It often happens that a lady's lap-dog, running out and into her muff at church, and playing other antic tricks, draws more attention than the parson..." The melody of the A part is the well-known song "The Old Grey Mare (She Ain't What She Used to Be." One version of the melody was used for a campaign song for Abe Lincoln, confirming Charlie Acuff's comment that the tune dates at least to the Civil War. Here is a link to a YouTube video posted by vintage18lover of Charlie Acuff playing the tune with David Holt on banjo:    • Charlie Acuff and David Holt   Joining me are friends Stephen Rapp on banjo (Kent, OH), Tony Schmieg on banjo & vocals (Christiansburg, VA), Bonny Lynne Shiplet on guitar (Columbus, OH), and Jeanie Thieken on guitar (Athens, OH) Old-Time TOTW is able to continue through your support. I invite you to be a part of this journey, join my Patreon at: www.patreon.com/paulkirk I'd like to thank my latest Patreon member Eryn! The dog in the banner is my cousin Marilyn's dog, Takeo. Subscribe to my YouTube channel, and join the Old-Time TOTW group on Facebook at:   / 33100.  .