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From Wikipedia?"Turkey in the Straw" performed by the United States Air Force BandProblems listening to this file? See media help."Turkey in the Straw" is a well-known American folk song dating from the early 19th century.The song`s tune was first popularized in the late 1820s and early 1830s by blackface performers, notably George Washington Dixon, Bob Farrell and George Nichols.[citation needed] Another song, "Zip Coon", was sung to the same tune. This version was first published between 1829 and 1834 in either New York or Baltimore. All of the above performers claimed to have written the song, and the dispute is not resolved. Ohio songwriter Daniel Decatur Emmett is sometimes erroneously credited as the song`s author.