View source for Annotation:Pretty Little Girl with the Blue Dress On (1)

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|f_annotation='''PRETTY LITTLE GIRL WITH THE BLUE DRESS ON [1].''' AKA- "Pretty Little Girl with the Red Dress On." AKA and see "[[Billy Butler]]." American, Reel. USA; North Carolina, Indiana. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAAABB (John Summers). According to Guthrie Meade ('''Country Music Sources''', 2002), the piece is related to “Who’s Been Here Since I’ve Been Gone” and “[[Gate to go Through]].” See also the related tune "[[Sugar Barrel]]" and the more distantly related "[[Whip the Devil around the Stump]]" tune family. The lines below, familiar from Leadbelly’s “Poor Howard(‘s Dead and Gone)” and other songs, are sometimes sung with the tune:
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''Who's been here since I've been gone? ''<br>
''A pretty little girl with a blue dress on.''<br>
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|f_source_for_notated_version=John Summers (Indiana) [Phillips]. 
|f_printed_sources= Phillips ('''Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1'''), 1994; p. 189. 
|f_recorded_sources=Rounder 0194, John W. Summers - "Indiana Fiddler" (1984). Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD 40013, “Doug and Jack Wallin: Family Songs and Stories from the North Carolina Mountains” (1995). Smithsonian Folkways SFW 40193, Doug Wallin – “Classic Old Time Fiddle” (2007. Reissue recording. Wallin, {1919-2000}, from around Sodom, North Carolina, learned the song from his father). 
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