“Little Gold Fiddle" feat. Aaron Stephens

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We learned "Little Gold Fiddle" from George Gibson of Knott County, Kentucky. George learned it from his father, Malvin Gibson. The song is a very old cante-fable from England in which a fiddler and his wife take a journey in a merchant’s ship, and the two men make a wager regarding the chastity of the woman. I've found it printed under various titles such as "Merchant-man and the Fiddler's Wife" and "Fiddler's Bitch." The only American examples I have found are from the Gibsons, and an unidentified singer in Indiana documented during the 1940s.

References:
"The Merchant-man and the Fidlers wife To a Pleasant Northen Tune" printed for Fr. Coles, Thos. Vere, J. Wright, J. Clarke, W. Thackeray, and T. Passinger (c. 1680)

The Diary of Samuel Pepys, volume 4, page 163 (1663)

English Broadside Ballad Archive # 21825

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