Deer Walk

This arrangement of Deer Walk is based on the version by Clyde Curley from his 1998 Clyde Curley and The Oxymorons: Old Time Mandolin Music CD.  On the CD, Clyde plays Deer Walk as the third of three tunes in a medley with Briarpicker Brown being the first tune in the medley and Leake County Two-Step as the second tune in the medley.

I’ve not found another version of Deer Walk that sounds like Clyde’s version.

You can find the fiddler version of Deer Walk in the excellent collection of contra dance and fiddle tunes collected by Susan Songer with Clyde Curley titled The Portland Collection: Contra Dance Music in the Pacific Northwest.

I like how in the medley, Clyde shifts from the key of D with Briarpicker Brown to the key of G with Leake County Two-Step, and finally back to the key of D with Deer Walk.  Clyde is the master of the sublime fiddle medley.

The tune is played in the key of D with just with three chords: D, G, and of course A.  As I’ve often repeated, Woody Guthrie would say were getting a bit fancy here with three chords in song. 

Download a pdf of Deer Walk -> Click DeerWalk.pdf.