WOW!!  @Fiddlerman the coolest thing ever.  Thank you very much!!

@fiddlinsteudel  That is the question!!  Where is my version?  Not sure how to explain this, the initial one I learned I liked the notes but not the feel, tempo, beat of it. Hence the posting of the question.

Same thing happened to me with Angeline the Baker.  I had memorized an easy version then heard a few different versions, Barry's, then yours, etc. I have searched listening to many videos.  I have not been able to decide which I like best.

Who knew such a simple song had so many versions!!  I want to stay close enough that people recognize the tune.  I have heard some that are a very far stretch.  I am mashing a couple together, then the question is - does it flow, make sense?  

And as @fiddlerman mentions will others like it!!?  Hehe, no booing from the peanut gallery!!!  

Who knew - thanks to Fiddlerman I have discovered that unknowingly I am playing "The Girl I left Behind "  with a slight bit of a swing.  

Another blog idea - discussing the different versions of bluegrass tunes, who played them, part of country they are from etc.

@KindaScrathy  Hehe!!  Yes it does.  Maybe today it is simply in the way it is played, with or without ornamentations?   Bonaparte's Retreat became classical music with Aaron Copeland's help.

Have you seen this site: http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddler.....RIN_PY.htm

PUSH THAT PIG'S FOOT A LITTLE FURTHER IN THE FIRE. Old‑Time, Breakdown. USA, Western North Carolina. Recorded by fiddler Marcus Martin (N.C.) for the Library of Congress. Martin was influence by E. Tenn. fiddler J. Dedrick Harris, who played regularly with Bob Taylor in the latter's bid for Governor of Tenn. in the late 1800's.

I thought it might depend on the actual title.  Who knew it had words??

SHOVE THAT PIG'S FOOT A LITTLE FARTHER IN THE FIRE. Old-Time, Breakdown. G Major. Standard tuning. AB (Silberberg): AABB (Phillips, Songer). A ‘pig’s foot’ is a blacksmith’s tool that somewhat resembles a crowbar or poker, used to manipulate pieces of pig iron in a forge. The tune was originally recorded by western North Carolina fiddler Martin Marcus on an LP where he played it as a duet with his son Wayne. Marcus also recorded for the Library of Congress in the 1940's. Joel Shimberg (who says “Surely it’s a barbecue song”) learned the following verse to the (low part of the) tune from Mike Seegar:

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Shove that pig's foot into the fire,

 Do it now, Miss Liza,

 Shove that pig's foot into the fire,

 Do it now, Miss Liza.

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The melody can be heard in the film Cold Mountain, albeit the producers saw fit to rename it “Ruby with Eyes that Sparkle.” Sources for notated versions: fiddler and violin maker Armin Barnett and Jere Canote (Seattle, Washington) [Phillips, Songer]; Tony Mates [Silberberg]. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), vol. 1, 1994; pg. 222. Silberberg (Tunes I Learned at Tractor Taven), 2002; pg. 145. Songer (Portland Collection), 1997; pg. 185. Rounder CD0421, Bruce Molsky - “Big Hoedown” (1997).

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