- Style
- Old-time
- Tradition
- Appalachian
- Form
- Reel
- Key
- G
- Level
- 3
- Played on
- Fiddle
In the public domain. Source
Music
85bpm
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Chord chart
History
The title refers to the Scioto River in Ohio, which runs into the Ohio River. Most versions come from Burl Hammons of Marlinton, West Virginia, who played it a little differently for each collector who recorded him.
Alan Jabbour said Burl would repeat the third phrase of a strain when he felt like it, which made the tune crooked. Revival bands picked it up from different recordings: the Red Clay Ramblers from a 1970 field tape, others from the Library of Congress album The Hammons Family.