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|f_annotation='''STON(E)Y POINT [1]. '''AKA and see "Stony Point Reel" (Pa. title), “[[Buck Creek Girls]],” “[[Booker’s Bluff]],” "[[Hop Along Sally]]," “[[Hop Skip Squirrel]],” "[[Hop Squirrel]]," “[[Off with Your Jacket]],” "[[Old Dad]]," "[[Pigtown Fling]]," "[[Wild Horse]]," "[[Wild Horses at Stoney Point]]," "[[White Horse (3)]]". "[[Kelton's Reel]]." American and British Isles; Breakdown and Reel.USA, widely known. G Major ('A' and 'C' parts), E Aeolian ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC (Brody): AABBCCDD (Christeson): AA'BC (Bayard). Christeson (1973) says it was descended from "Kelton's Reel", published in Ryan's Jigs and Reels. Early printings in the United States include'''Old Dan Emmett’s Original Banjo Melodies''''' (''1844) as “Old Dad,” with words. It also can be found in '''Winner’s Music of the Dance''''' (''1866) as “Stony Point Reel.” The tune may take the nameStony Pointfrom the Revolutionary War battle in which Mad Anthony Wayne successfully assaulted a fortified position on the lower Hudson River. The tune is known locally as "Hop Squirrel" in the Franklin/Floyd County area of Virginia, but a similar title for the melody, called “[[Hop Skip Squirrel]],” was in the repertoire of Wade Enloe of Eldon, Missouri, in the north Ozarks (Bill Rogers, personal communication). See also the Mid-West variant “[[Walk-Along John (1)]],” and the related “[[Nigger in the Woodpile (2)]].”  Can be found in Elias Howe's '''Jigs and Reels'''' under the title "[[Kelton's Reel]]" and in '''White's Unique Collection of Jigs and Reels''' (Boston, 1896) under "[[Pigtown Fling]]."
|f_source_for_notated_version=<span>James Marr (Missouri, 1949) [Bayard]. </span>
|f_printed_sources=<span>Bayard (</span>'''Dance to the Fiddle'''<span>), 1981; Appendix No. 19, p. 580. Brody (</span>'''Fiddlers Fakebook'''<span>), 1983; p. 267. R.P. Christeson (</span>'''Old Time Fiddlers Repertory, vol. 1'''<span>), 1973; p. 99. </span>
|f_recorded_sources=<span>Bay 727, "Kenny Hall and the Sweet Mill String Band." County 762, Lyman Enloe‑ "Fiddle Tunes I Recall." Dorian Discovery DIS-80103,Helicon- "Horizons" (1992). Kicking Mule KM‑327, "Scartaglen" (1984). Library of Congress, 1939, W.A. Bledsoe (Meridian, Miss.). PearlMae Muisc 004-2, Jim Taylor – “The Civil War Collection” (1996. Collected by fiddler Bruce Greene from Jake Phelps, Todd County, Kentucky, and John Salyer, Magoffin County, Ky.). Rounder 0004, Clark Kessinger ‑ "Old‑Time Music" (appears as "Wild Horses"). Rounder 0060, Brother Oswald and Charlie Collins‑ "Oz and Charlie." Rounder 0092, Tony Rice‑ "Manzanita." Rounder 0089, Oscar and Eugene Wright ‑ "Old Time Fiddle and Guitar Music fromWest Virginia." CD, Alan Jabbour, James Reed, Bertram Levy – “A Henry Reed Reunion” (2002). </span>
|f_see_also_listing=<span>See Pete Martin’s bluegrass transcription </span>[http://www.petimarpress.com/pdf%20files/Texas%20Style%20Fiddle%20Transcriptions%20Volume%202.pdf]<span> (pp. 51-58)<br /></span>


<span>Hear Bob Walters (Nebraska) 1950 home recording at Slippery Hill [https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/stoney-point]<br /></span>
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