page_title: The Arkansas Traveler (song)
section_title: Vaudeville
hierarchical_section_title: The Arkansas Traveler (song) / Vaudeville
caption_attribution_description: English: The Turning of the Tune: Traveller Playing the "Arkansas Traveller"
context_page_description: "The Arkansas Traveler" was the state song of Arkansas from 1949 to 1963; it has been the state historical song since 1987. The music was composed in the 19th century by Colonel Sanford C. 'Sandy' Faulkner; the current official lyrics were written by a committee in 1947 in preparation for its naming as the state song.
  Arkansas' other official state songs are "Arkansas" as well as "Arkansas" & "Oh, Arkansas".
context_section_description: "The Arkansas Traveler" was a popular comedy sketch on the vaudeville circuit. It revolved around the encounter of a (usually lost) traveling city person with a local, wise-cracking fiddle player. Various jokes at the expense of the "city slicker" were interspersed with instrumental versions of the song. In many versions, the city person is also a fiddle player, and as the sketch progresses, eventually learns the tune and plays along with the country bumpkin.
  The contemporary singer Michelle Shocked includes a vaudeville-style version of "Arkansas Traveler" on her 1992 album of the same name. Jerry Garcia and David Grisman also do a version on their 1993 album Not for Kids Only.
caption: Currier and Ives print, depicting "The Turning of the Tune" in The Arkansas Traveler.
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