Grandpa Jones Old Rattler

[artifactman660]

we use to listen to this every night going to run our lines on the river.

[redwing46901]

My Dad used to sing this out loud to us kids and dance his hillbilly steps to it too ( everyone who knew my Dad called him Hillbilly-- he was from kentucky ).

[Heavydagger]

"One night i saw a big fat coon climb up in a tree,

I called ole' Rattler right away to get him down fer me,

But Rattler wouldn't do it, because he liked that coon,

I saw em' walkin' paw-in-paw, later by the light of the moon!"

Can't you just picture that?

[MrMelonMan100]

now that a dead way of life sad to be replaced by staging rapper that smock pot every 5 minutes

[danksmoka10]

@Rev1981 i ate it :D

[swifton1]

life as we knew it growing ups all but over who's gonna fill our shoes?

[danksmoka10]

we got a rattler in the barn but it aint a dog

[Rev1981]

@danksmoka10 what did you do with it?

[jiwbink]

WOW!! WISH THAT THERE WERE MORE LIKE HIM!!!!

[IamtheBurceDickenson]

Who heard this on the Ole Taylor Made Oprey on WTVY Dothan AL on Saturday nights?

[saphopoem]

@IamtheBurceDickenson I did! My grandparents had this record and never missed opry on WTVY, I miss fishing with Red~!

[weltoncalhoun]

@IamtheBurceDickenson i did. im from geneva alabama. let er' go boys!!!

[meowfit]

Is there a clip of him from Hee Haw of him saying "What'dyasay?" The man was too funny:):):)

[ProF0ShoY0]

He was always so happy when he pickin the banjo

[stadiumist1]

The song ends on a sad note, as Old Rattler dies.

[Videomama1972]

Who could NOT like this!!! :):)

[redwing46901]

I love this song..us little kids would get up and dance to it as my dad and uncle would play it an sing it...fun memories thanks for sharing it !!!

[Mammoth37]

6 people are retarded!

[donnie10121]

Grandpa jones was one of the best at the clawhammer style. then came the lester flatt style and changed everything. both are awesome

[kewtt1]

FYI - According to a plaque at his grave site, he was born October 20, 1930.

[kewtt1]

FYI - According to a plaque at his grave site, he was born October 20, 1930.

[tslagi1838]

You youngsters get BACK to your ROOTS!!!! That rap is crap....get down with mountain music....you know you want to....the hills are a callin!

[majimjim]

@tslagi1838 just a couple weeks ago i was listening to heavy metal but im a Christian boy and got tired of all the atheist music so i got that music out of my life and now i tell you i dont know how i stood that crap. my Papaw was from Kentucky and listened to this music and i liked it but never really got into it into it but now its all i listen to. every day now im on youtube searching and searching to learn about the best brand of music .

[stephenromansd]

love it!

[robtbarton9]

It is an older style of playing the five string banjo it pre-dates the modern style of three finger technique and is call claw hammer style. You hear it in old mountain music and eastern lowland music.

BTW Grandpa didn't play bluegrass he played traditional mountain music. Bluegrass is a more modern style developed in the early 1950s based on mountain tunes and the guitar playing style of Maybelle Carter.

[robtbarton9]

It is an older style of playing the five string banjo it pre-dates the modern style of three finger technique and is call claw hammer style. You hear it in old mountain music and eastern lowland music.

[elc1960]

Great traditional style mountain music. You don't hear stuff like this often anymore. The Southern Rock band Blackfoot used to use their lead singer's uncle (or was it his granddad?) "Shorty" Medlocke on their albums, and a highlight was when Shorty would play clawhammer banjo or harmonica to intro a song like "Train, Train", "Fox Chase" or "Rattlesnake Rock 'N' Roller".

[fatkidincoat]

no1 will be as good as him he is a lengend.

[UNCLEMOMMY]

sure is a sexy bluegrass god.

[flashbell]

I just remember him telling Hee Haw cast what's for dinner. Green beans and pork belly or something.

[ksardines]

its like claw hamer its awesome

[elc1960]

"Hey Grandpa, what's for supper?" "Oh, we got collard greens and sorghum to boot, and good old baked beans to make you toot! And ham so good it'll make you cry, and for dessert some homemade pecan pie!" "Yum YUM!"

[xxmaxexstreamxx]

@elc1960 HEE HAW

[elc1960]

@xxmaxexstreamxx Buck: Hee Haw salutes Morgan's Corner, Arkansas; population: 535! Cornfield gang: SAAAAAA - LUTE!!!

[goldpaugh5]

aint never gonna be another like him and its a damn shame he had to leave us.

[xxmaxexstreamxx]

@goldpaugh5 GRANDPA AND STRING BEAN

[doughesson]

One dog song I'd like to hear again is "Old Blue" but I haven't been able to find it and the radio station claims that they've never heard of it.

[harley121]

REST IN PEACE Gran-pa Jones!! We miss ya!

[coleskateboardking12]

my great uncle was from down south he could play this so good i miss him

[larrydh2]

one of the great old songs by a wonderful performer. i love it. thanx.

[mcfrdmn]

Lovely performance

[phontine05]

wow i grew up with this song :)

[4freespeech]

If you can listen to this without grinning from ear to ear you're dead!

Real good American music.

[cody1982]

HEY GRANDPA, WHATS FER SUPPER?

[NoUrDumb25419]

The only time I can hear this kinda banjo pickin' is at Civil War reenactments after the crowds leave,,,,,,,,,

[doughesson]

@NoUrDumb25419 And the people who've left with their "music" thumping out their windows are complaining about the noise from the cannons and muskets.

[HillbillyJamboree]

Thanks for the great video and memorial

[Hopkins1148]

Music isnt fun like that any more. Good job flashbell.

[LTGMF]

hank and willie could kick kenny chesney and brad paisleys faggoty asses any day.

[MushroomKingMo]

The Only Country Music today Is Red Dirt !

Red Dirt ain't no POP COUNTRY CRAP!

[tpa1963]

Nobody else can bang a banjo like Grandpa Jones!!!!

[trekkie19]

My cross country coach plays this alllll the time. especially before our races. its grown on me =)

[aubhar]

I agree this is country music....not anymore

[PreacherSly]

amen, bluebonnett. I grew up watching the grand old opery. so called "country" music today is trash

[Bluebonnett52]

Remember when THIS used to be country music?

Much better than the crud these folks are poking at us nowadays...

[bradlikestoparty]

my dad plays this song all the time he learned it when he was a kid.

[KyFats]

Cut em loose down the creek boys. Whooo is that Lil Ann that just struck?

[wiregrasswx]

They play it now on 93.7. its playin NOW!

[cyrus76hb]

YEEEEHAAAAWW

[ColonelDeWayne]

This song is awesome. I hear it every Saturday when 95.5 does the coon hunt. They play this song, randomly cutting in with clips of where people call in and "turn the dogs loose." My friends and I got on there tonight, we were "Matt, Andrew, River, and Matt" in "Spring hill" to anyone in the area who was listening. We weren't actually in Spring Hill, we were outside of Troy closer to Goshen, but ah well, Matt got carried away.

[johnherr35]

I miss the greats too, My grandfather was Casey Jones, a fiddle player, who played with Stringbean. His main time was spent with Uncle Henry's Original Kentucky Mountaineers, and I miss him, and his fiddle! I grew up with this music, and love it.

[dammitsthename]

I miss my granddaddy too!They don't make'em like that anymore.

[judelou123]

i LOVE THIS SONG BY GRANDPA JONES, MY DAD TAUGHT IT TO US AS KIDS... LOVE IT !!!!!!!!!!!! I NOW TRY IT TO OTHER LITTLE KIDS...

[OrmEmber]

I wonder what his stage name was before he became old enough to be called "Grandpa Jones"?

[theddavis44]

Granpa was in his 30s when he went to Nashville, They told him if he wanted to play on the Grand Ole Opry he would play Grandpa.

His name Louis Marshall (Grandpa) Jones.

[flores1450]

I liked this old man he was awesome RIP grandpa

[MissShelbyMooMoo]

now that is some great music right there

[neez666]

i love this song

[artifactman660]

im gonna name my nexy dog rattler!! love this song,reminds me of the good ole days runnig line on the grand river

[BradNC11175]

Good ole Grandpa... he was awsome and the world became a little darker the day he passed away. But you know Grandpa and Stringbean are tearing up in Heaven where they both belong ha ha!!

[tejepollo]

awsome...from spain.... bravo!!!..ole!! jajaja

[aautumnb]

LOL

[seeker259]

hey grandpa whats for dinner ?

[bigwillietheb]

no no no no you said it wrong it goes like this

HEY GRANDPA WHATS FOR SUPPER?

[TheTrueFarfala]

corn

[Nerdad]

Does anyone remember as I do this song by grandpa made into a Trail Blazer dog foos comercial!

Trail Blazer Here Here Trail Blazer Here

[dixieken]

Sure do. I had a "Ol Rattler" pup when I was a child. Fed him Trail Blazer too.

[doughesson]

@Nerdad I thought it went "Trail Blazer,huntin' power!" And the old Chuck wagon commercials with the dog chasing the chuck wagon through the kitchen and the cabinet is opened to show the box of dog food... They don't make commercials that you can believe the endorser actually uses. "It's pea pickin good!"

[zhero0]

Love it.

[clayp72]

He calls Rattler like my Granddad called his dog, "Heuh, heuh".

[soppinmyplate]

I can remember 45 years ago waking up my parents at almost midnight because I had Grandpa Jones on the air from Nasville.I had an old radio used to put my hand inside on the metal dial to bring in the sound and to turn the stations.Lucky to be alive today HAHA Thanks Grandpa for all the memories.

[rann109]

Such a lovely old soul. I miss him.

[VeldigdeiligfraNorge]

god jul

[VeldigdeiligfraNorge]

god jul

[papawx3]

Grandpa used a "claw hammer" style to play banjer {thats the way my grandparents used to pronounce banjo}. It is the old style of playing. The Scruggs style of "the three finger roll" didn't come around until much later, but when it did, it replaced claw hammer {as far as bluegrass was concerned}. Everybody wanted to play like Earl and Don Reno. Claw Hammer is still used in Dixieland and folk music. The old time mountain tunes like this one are best suited to claw hammer in my opinion.

[vector3693]

I've several Grandpa Jones videos and songs and just can't get enough. Almost a kinship.

Thanks Grandpa.

 Warhawk

[eastkybanjo91]

when i git to heaven im gonna hunt all day with ted nuge git drunk with hank williams jr and play banjer with granpa jones and string bean

[failier]

i wana know how he plucks that banjer!! its crazy!!!!

[flashbell]

failier ~Grandpa doesn't pluck it, he whoops it. You have to be a back woodw hillbilly from blueridge to understand it.

[roboman3678]

@flashbell brother amen clawhammmer style of playin that banjo

[roboman3678]

@flashbell he does the clawhammer style he whips it like a bad couzioun or red headed step shild



[Dannys998877]

@failier It's usually called "clawhammer" or "drop thumb" style. No one did it better than Grandpa Jones.

[airbusA5000]

@failier to see how they frail, look up some songs like run little rabbit run by stringbean youwill see how they do it,

[IVthHorseman]

Grandpa Jones = best banjo player ever. Period.

[clayp72]

He was the Jimi Hendrix of Banjo.

[dillonabney5]

no no no no no u cant compare anyone to granpa jones

[clayp72]

I'll apologize to him when I'm watching him tonight on the RFDTV Channel!

[bigwillietheb]

yes he was but ol stringbean was also a master of the banjo too

[GrannySea]

Gracious me! In 1987 I was on holiday in Southern Florida and picked up a tape in Bell's Radio Shack in Clewiston, it's called "The Bluegrass Hall Of Fame" and this track is on it...I will have to try and find the others....

[lovestrength]

YEEEEEEEHAAAAA!!! = D dame its good!prise the LORD!!

//PETTER.SWED

[SirCoughsalot]

I really miss Grandpa Jones.

[toonguy85]

Thanks for posting this! This is a Grandpa classic. His most memorable song, in my mind.

[Bluerosecountry]

oh dear, I hit the wrong thumb.... its thumbs up

[russell56443]

That was GREAT!!!

[thorneswift]

Go Grandpa, go!

[kammaja]

EEEEEEEYYYYYYYYooooooooooooooo ! Come on.

[gakr123]

This is one of my favorite songs. I named my Leopard Cur Dog after this song. He trees squirrels and possums.

[turkamine]

One of my favorites, even named one of my ol Black & Tan coonhounds Rattler.

[jerryg65]

Absolutely fantastic banjo picking . Grandpa could pick , sing , and tell stories with the best of them . 5 stars

[justdobbs]

Can't get enough of Grandpa Jones

[SherJonesy]

ohhh man I love this song!!

[hamiljohn]

Thanks for posting! I miss Grandpa Jones.

[PhillipCreeper]

Thanks for sharing! Way to sing Granpa!

[NamVet70Mike]

Ahhhhh the great Granpa Jones,mucho thanks for this treat!! As a Missouri Ozark Rebel listening to the Grand Old Opry,Porter Wagoner Show and Hee Haw was and still is my kind of music!!Again thanks,Warchild!