This was the song that the Hooterville Volunteer Fire Department was always rehearsing on Petticoat Junction. It would be played with varying degrees of tightness, and always at a dirge tempo; even after the show had been on for five years, the first-reading dirge qualities remained. I'd always thought it was meant to be played like that, but in one episode, an out-of-towner, a trumpet player staying at The Shady Rest, I suppose, played it way uptempo à la Doc Severinsen or some such studio-musician type, and it all made sense -- to me, if not to the fire-department band.