"Jaybird Died of the Whooping Cough", also known as "Here Comes Jack with a Fiddle on His Back" is an old time reel in G Major. The parts are played AABB. It is known in Tennessee and Virginia. Charles Wolfe (1991) states that printed versions of this song/tune have been found as far back as 1846 and that it has been fairly widely collected from both black and white sources. A Kentucky variant is entitled "Here Comes Jack with a Fiddle on His Back". It was printed in Kuntz's Ragged But Right (1987), Silberberg's Complete Fiddle Tunes I Either Did or Did Not Learn at Tractor Tavern (2005), Lamancusa's The Gettysburg Collection of Old-Time Fiddle Tunes (2021), Titon's Old Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes (2001) and Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1 (1994). It was recorded by John Ashby and the Free State Ramblers on Fiddling by the Hearth (1979), Double Decker String Band on Giddyap Napoleon (1980) and The Lazy Aces on Still Lazy After All These Years (1986).