The Big Sunflower – Bobby Newcomb

Mountain dulcimer solo (D-G-C tuning) with optional lyrics • Arrangement of an American minstrel song • Made popular by Billy Emerson who sang black-face comedy as a dandy dressed in bright colors (with a sunflower pinned to his lapel) • Referenced in Laura Ingalls Wilder's books ("By the Shores of Silver Lake" and "The Long Winter") as her Pa's "trouble song" that he sung "whenever he was especially cold and miserable"