Fiddler Jones

Biography
A fiddler: enjoyed fiddling more than farming.

Poem Text
"  The earth keeps some vibration going""  There in your heart, and that is you.""  And if the people find you can fiddle,""  Why, fiddle you must, for all your life.""  What do you see, a harvest of clover?""  Or a meadow to walk through to the river?"" The wind's in the corn; you rub your hands""  For beeves hereafter ready for market;""  Or else you hear the rustle of skirts""  Like the girls when dancing at Little Grove.""  To Cooney Potter a pillar of dust""  Or whirling leaves meant ruinous drouth;""  They looked to me like Red-Head Sammy""  Stepping it off, to 'Toor-a-Loor.'""  How could I till my forty acres""  Not to speak of getting more,""<span style='color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-weight:normal;'>  With a medley of horns, bassoons and piccolos""<span style='color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-weight:normal;'>  Stirred in my brain by crows and robins""<span style='color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-weight:normal;'>  And the creak of a wind-mill—only these?""<span style='color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-weight:normal;'>  And I never started to plow in my life""<span style='color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-weight:normal;'>  That some one did not stop in the road""<span style='color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-weight:normal;'>  And take me away to a dance or picnic.""<span style='color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-weight:normal;'>  I ended up with forty acres;""<span style='color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-weight:normal;'>  I ended up with a broken fiddle—""<span style='color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-weight:normal;'>  And a broken laugh, and a thousand memories,""<span style='color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-weight:normal;'>  And not a single regret."

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-weight:normal;">Mentioned by

 * The Hill
 * <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-weight:normal;">Jim Brown
 * <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-weight:normal;">Oscar Hummel
 * <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-weight:normal;">Jeduthan Hawley

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-weight:normal;">Mentions

 * Cooney Potter, who cared more about acquiring land than anything else.