Level: 3
Tuning: Standard

This is a wonderful little rag that the Rev. said he learned from a piano player. It is beautifully symmetrical and a sweet example of his key of C ragtime blues (that is: jazz) style. It begins with a classic Rev. Gary Davis C run out of first position and moves up to a diminished A on the 5th fret. Back to the run and up to a diminished C on the 8th fret.

He resolves it with an II IV I progression and a IV bVI V turnaround. The bridge moves up the III, an E7 chord made from Rev. Davis' distinctive C form that uses his left thumb to cover the two low strings, in this case, on the 7th fret. (Merle Travis is the only other player I know whom independently, it seems, used this fingering.) From there he uses the E form A minor on the 5th fret, running down to the first position A minor. Down two frets from the E7 he then uses the same fingering for there D7 on the 5th fret, and then moves down to the 1st position G-G7, with the 7th on the D string, 3rd fret.