A cool tune that I learned from the playing of David Holt and John Herrmann. The banjo is tuned to f#BEBE. I’m playing this on a fretless banjo. A good recording of John Herrmann playing this can be found on the excellent CD entitled “Banjo Gathering”. John plays it together with the Leadbelly tune “Old Man Can Your Dog Catch a Rabbit” and instead of “Shaving a Dead Man” he calls it “Protect the Innocent”.