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O LORD GALS ONE FRIDAY. Old-Time. USA, Alabama. The name of a tune played by Alabama fiddler Jack Gibson, as recorded in Edward Youn McMorries' History of the First Regiment Alabama Volunteer Infantry, CSA (1904, p. 52):

We also had many superior fiddlers, Jack Gibson, of the Perote Guards, being the most skillful. Once a week, or oftener, and just after supper, he would open up a free concert in his tent. The first stroke of his bow never failed to be cheered enthusiastically by the regiment. After playing an hour or two he invariably closed with "O Lord Gals one Friday," which he would play, sing and dance at the same time. He was afterwards wounded (July 28, 1864, at Atlanta) in the right arm just above the wrist, resulting in a permanent deflection of the arm at that point; and being asked whether he could still use the bow replied: "Why, ye; my arm now has exactly the right crook for the business.

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