Sally Johnson

Marion Thede, collecting in the Midwest, met a fiddler who had learned it in 1884 from a man of seventy, who in turn had known it since he was ten. Arizona fiddler Kenner Kartchner called it an old Texas tune, and Eck Robertson recorded it in 1923 in a medley with "Billy in the Lowground." It is still heard at Texas contests.

Modern bluegrass versions are nearly the same tune as "Katy Hill." Mark Wilson thinks the two once shared little more than their high parts, and that Grand Ole Opry fiddlers smoothed them into one shape as they played them faster and faster. It is not the same tune as "Sally Ann Johnson."