"Cotton-Eyed Joe", also known as “Dominicker Duck” is an old-time American breakdown. It is widely known but may have originally been a Texas tune. There have been several thoughts about what the title might refer to. Some think ‘cotton-eyed’ means to be drunk on moonshine and a related suggestion is that it refers to an individual who has been blinded by drinking wood alcohol (as happened during Prohibition, for example), turning the eyes milky white. Alan Lomax suggests it was used to describe a man whose eyes were milky white from Trachoma (a bacterial infection), while others have suggested cataracts, syphilis or glaucoma. “Cotton Eyed Joe” was the name of a heel-and-toe dance in Texas in the 1880’s. It was printed in Beisswenger & McCann's Ozark Fiddle Music (2008), Brody's Fiddler’s Fakebook (1983), R.P. Christeson's Old Time Fiddlers Repertory, vol. 1 (1973), Ford's Traditional Music in America (1940), Frets Magazine, "Byron Berline: The Fiddle", September 1981, Kaufman's Beginning Old Time Fiddle (1977), Perlman's The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island (1996), Phillips's Fiddlecase Tunebook (1989), Phillips's Traditional American Fiddle Tunes (1994), Thede's The Fiddle Book (1967) and Thomas & Leeder's The Singin' Gatherin' (1939). It was recorded by Lonnie Robertson, Wilson Douglas, The Skillet Lickers, Pope's Arkansas Mountaineers, Carter Brothers and Son, Fiddlin' John Carson, Tommy Jarrell, Tommy Jackson, Wry Straw and Byard Ray, Tommy Jackson, Dan Gellert & Shoofly, The Highwoods String Band, Wilson Douglas, Rodney Miller, Mike Seeger, Marcus Martin and others.