Down Yonder

L. Wolfe Gilbert, who also wrote the words to "Waitin' for the Robert E. Lee," published "Down Yonder" in 1921, and the Peerless Quartette recorded it that year. Georgia string bands took it up as a fiddle tune: McMichen's Melody Men recorded it in 1926 and the Scottdale String Band in 1927.

The 1934 Skillet Lickers record, with Gid Tanner's 17 year old son Gordon playing the lead fiddle, sold over a million copies over the years. Georgia banjo player Uncle John Patterson told Art Rosenbaum that the tune got its name when he broke a string at an Atlanta fiddlers' convention and said he had to go "down yonder" for a new one, though the song already had that title.