Billy in the Lowground
The "Quotes" play the calico version of Billy in key of G.
You can't expect such a great name to apply to just one tune. First, there is Billy in the Lowground. Then, there is Billy in the Lowgrand calico version. And then there is Old Time Billy in the Lowground, a different tune. And there is a yet another tune entirely called Billy in the Low Land, but apparently it is also called East Virginia Billy in the Lowground.
This is Billy in the Lowground, calico version, key of A or G.
Roger Netherton at Clifftop 2018 [UToob]. Key of A.
Tricia Spencer [Slippery Hill]. Twin fiddles, key of A.
The "Quotes" on the porch during Covid-19 [UToob]. Key of G.
Most people play the Kentucky tune that is just called Billy in the Lowground. Key of C.
The Flyin Fiddler [UToob] old time version
The Haints play a pick-up square dance [UToob].
Brad Leftwich, Hogwire Stringband [UToob].
Elmer Rich at home [UToob]. Read about him in GoldenSeal.
Tim Trawick [UToob] clean contest version
Bubba Hopkins in [UToob] Texas contest
Johns Fiddle [UToob] easy lesson
Halston Williams [Utoob] medium lession
Guitar flatpicking version [UToob]
This fiddler by the road scratches out an unusual version attributed to a Kentucky fiddler heard on 78 [utoob].
Just guitar: flatpicking Wayne Henderson [utoob].
The Phillips Collection contains 3 versions in C.
The tune was the subject of a 1983 musicology PhD dissertation but, at the request of the author, this work is not available to view or purchase.
Don't forget about Billy in the Low Land.
Old recording of Henry Reed collected by Alan Jabbour. Billy in the Low Land [Library of Congress].
On the Alan Jabbour and Ken Perlman album [Perlman.com], the track is called Billy in the Low Land. In this video [UToob], Mr. Jabbour says Henry Reed called it East Virginia Billy in the Lowground to distinguish it from the Kentucky tune in C.
Oh wait, there's one more. Old Time Billy in the Lowground is a different tune, of course.