Music -- Back Up And Push

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Did you ever wonder about the riddle
What kind of spirit lives in the fiddle?
Is that old Satan, right there a-waitin'
Or is it tuned with the angel band?

Back up and push, back up and push
Back off from sin, let glory in
You can't go wrong singing this song
Back up and push away

If you let the devil play on your senses
Prepare to suffer the consequences
The fullest measure of worldly pleasure
Can only send you to the roaring fire

Back up and push, back up and push
Back off from sin, let glory in
You can't go wrong singing this song
Back up and push away

Lyrics by The McLain Family.

Recorded by Bill Monroe; June Carter Cash; many more.

Back Up and Push was recorded twice in mid-1929, a few days apart -- in Richmond, IN, by the Augusta Trio, and then in Atlanta by the Georgia Organ Grinders, a fiddle band despite their name. The tune for "Back Up & Push" is actually one strain from the ragtime piano piece "Creole Belles". Several songs have been sung to it, listen to Mississippi John Hurt for a couple. It is also as a kids' skipping song and has been recorded as "Rubber Dolly Rag".

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