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With a Vamp in the Middle
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3000 a cappella a cappella - solo acoustic Alex Hargreaves - lead vocals Band Intro banjo banjo fiddle duo banjo harmonica duo banjo jawharp duo banjo/banjo duo bass solo Billy and Brian only Billy Failing - lead vocals Billy Strings & Béla Fleck duo Billy Strings and Alex Hargraves duo Billy Strings and Jarrod Walker Billy Strings on banjo, Jarrod Walker on guitar, Alex Hargreaves on fiddle Billy Strings solo Billy Strings solo clawhammer banjo Billy, Jarrod, Alex trio Billy, Lindsay & Ronnie only blackout Chris Henry on Mandolin and Billy Strings on Guitar clawhammer electric False start festival festival fiddle fiddle tune medley Full band around single mic with Chris Henry on Mandolin Full band; Billy Strings on vocals, Jarrod Walker on guitar guest - lead vocals guitar guitar duo harmonica incomplete instrumental Jarrod and Billy duo Jarrod on Guitar, Billy on Mandolin Jarrod Walker - guitar Jarrod Walker - lead vocals late night Martin 1946 D-28 Royal Masat - lead vocals single mic solo televised unfinished unplugged with Chris Henry on Mandolin Without Billy Failing

With a Vamp in the Middle

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With a Vamp in the Middle

John Hartford

Aereo-Plain (Album)

Make my bed with a crease in the middle
Make my home in the Hollywood of shills
And I make my living with a hillbilly fiddle
Playing little runs with the funny little fills

Well got me a gal from playing on my fiddle
And the farder that I fiddle the harder that she comes along
But we gotta get happy when we wiggle in the middle
That's when I know that I want to come home

Play, fiddle, play
All day long I hear you screaming at mt
Way far away in the yard

Well, I wrote this song
With a vamp in the middle
And I knew when I wrote it
That I'd written it for the fiddle

Play, fiddle, play
All day long I hear you screaming at me
Way far away in the yard

Total plays 26
Total teases 0
Percent of Shows 5.33%
Times opened 0
Times encored 0
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  • Love or Confusion (1 times - 3.85%)
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