Level: 3
Tuning: Standard

Yet another virtuoso showpiece that is Rev. Davis's equivalent to Merle Travis's Cannonball Rag. He takes the common circle of fifths progression in G, E7, A7, D7, G and goes to work all over the neck. The core of the song starts mid-neck with his five-fingered C7 form E7, his thumb anchoring the chord on the two low strings on the seventh fret. He works his way down to the E form A, fifth fret, the C7 form D7, fifth fret, the E form G to the first position G. He repeats the progression through the first position chords until he gets back to the G, when he plays a two bar, two octave run.

Every other time through he plays a two bar run through the A7 chord, after which he resolves the progression by playing the D form G, seventh fret, the A7 form D7, fifth fret, to the E form G, third fret. He varies these runs by either starting on the first beat or a half beat sooner. At times he takes the E chord all the way up to the G form E, ninth fret, to the D form A, also the ninth fret, and runs down through the D and G. It seems as though he always varied the performances, improvising runs and varying the chord forms effortlessly.