This month's free tab is 2-part arrangement of an old-time fiddle tune called "Old Yellow Dog (Came Trotting Through the Meeting House)".  This tune is one that has many variants, both in it's name, and it's melody.  It is related to a tune called "Old Blind Dog", a tune popularized by east Tennessee fiddler Charlie Acuff.   The children's song "The Old Grey Mare, She Ain't What She Used To Be" is also a descendant/variant of this tune.

Don Pedi has recorded a couple of related tunes.  One is titled "Old Abe Lincoln Came Tearin' Through The Wilderness", which is on his "Northern Tunes of the Civil War Era" CD.  The other is an old-time version of "Old Grey Mare", which is on his recording entitled "Mountain Views".

This arrangement is based on a version from a recording by the Double Decker String Band, mixed in with the version played by Charlie Acuff.   The tune is normally played in the key of G by old-time fiddlers, so this arrangement is out of D-A-d tuning, but capo'd at the 3rd fret.  The "Dulcimer 2" (harmony) part is my own creation that has evolved in recent years from playing this at various dulcimer jam sessions.

Enjoy!

--Tull