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|f_track=Yellow Stockings.mp3
|f_track=Elk River Blues.mp3
|f_pdf=Yellow Stocking.pdf
|f_pdf=Elk River Blues.pdf
|f_artwork=Mollcutpurse.jpg
|f_artwork=Ernie Carpenter.jpg
|f_tune_name=Yellow_Stockings
|f_tune_name=Elk River Blues
|f_track_title=Yellow_Stockings
|f_track_title=Elk River Blues
|f_section=abc
|f_section=abc
|f_played_by=[https://soundcloud.com/fiddlersbidofficial Fiddlers' Bid]
|f_played_by=[https://soundcloud.com/jatek-zenekar Jatek Zenekar]
|f_notes= From Haynes, Alan: Sex in Elizabethan England, page 119. Wrens Park Publishing, 1997 This image was from the title-page of The Roaring Girl.
|f_notes=Ernie Carpenter (1909-1997)
|f_caption=The tune dates from the 16th century and is a member of a very large tune family. Henry Playford first printed it in 1698 in his Dancing Master under the title Mad Moll, a dance named for Mary 'Moll' Frith, and amateur actress and professional pickpocket.
|f_caption=According to the booklet accompanying Carpenter's LP, the story behind the tune is one of a difficult adjustment to a forced change in Ernie's life.
|f_source=[https://soundcloud.com/fiddlersbidofficial/yellow-stockings Soundcloud]  
|f_source=[https://soundcloud.com/jatek-zenekar/elk-river-blues Soundcloud]
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|f_article=[[Yellow_Stockings | '''Yellow_Stockings''']]
|f_article=[[Elk River Blues | '''Elk River Blues''']]


The tune dates from the 16th century and is a member of a very large tune family. Henry Playford first printed it in 1698 in his '''Dancing Master''' (under the title "[[Mad Moll (1)]]", a dance named for Mary "Moll" Frith, and amateur actress and professional pickpocket), and later in his 1703 edition with another dance under the title "[[Virgin Queen]]."
Composed by Braxton County, West Virginia, old-time fiddler Ernie Carpenter (1909-1997).


In 1705 Dean Swift adapted a nursery song to it beginning "Here my kitten, my kitten" ("O my Kitten"). The title "Yellow Stockings" for the tune appear in dancing master Daniel Wright's '''North Country Frisks''' (1713) and (as "Yallow Stockings") in his '''Extraordinary Collection of Pleasant and Merry Humour's never before Published, Containing Hornpipes, Jiggs, North Cuntry Frisks', Morris's, Bagpipe Hornpipe's, & Round's with Severall Additonal fancis added. fit for all those that play Publick" (c. 1713, No. 62).  John and William Neal printed it in their '''Choice Collection of Country Dances''' (Dublin, 1726).
According to the booklet accompanying Carpenter's LP, the story behind the tune is one of a difficult adjustment to a forced change in Ernie's life. He had worked most of his life for the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company in Clarksburg, prior to retiring in 1972 to his home in Braxton County, West Virginia.  
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As a vocal melody it can be heard in Charles Coffee’s ballad opera '''Boarding School''' (1733), '''The Cobler of Preston''' (1732), and it was published in a folio of songs from Henry Brooke’s '''Jack the Gyantqueller''' (London, 1749). Thomas Moore used it as the vehicle for his lyric "Fairest Put On Awhile."


Sir John Hawkins mentioned the tune in this quote regarding tavern entertainment from his 1576 '''A General History of the Science and Practice of Music''':
He was a regular visitor during his working years to his homeplace on the Elk River, and was witness to the planning and construction of the Sutton Dam by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on the river during the 1950's and 1960's.


<blockquote>
Unfortunately, this resulted in the flooding of his boyhood home and the surrounding area, despite the efforts of himself and neighbors to forestall the project through a lobbyist. He refused the government's initial offer for his land (they didn't offer him anything for his house), and took the case to court.
''...Fidlers and others, hired by the master of the house; such as''
 
''in the night season were wont to parade the city and suburbs''
He was able to gain a marked increase in the money he eventually was paid through this process, although he had to pay legal fees out of his pocket. He stayed in his Elk River homestead while the dam was being constructed, even though most of his neighbors had already left.  Workmen blocked the roads in and out of the area, but Carpenter found alternate routes until they too were closed off.  
''under the title of Waits...Half a dozen of fidlers would scrape''
 
''"Sellenger's Round", or "John Come Kiss Me", or "Old Simon''
"I was the last person out of there," he said," I went ahead then and tore the old place town and brought it up here. Part of its in this house." Of the tune, he remarked: "I was sittin' here one day, an' I had the blues. I reckon as bad as anybody could, thinkin' about my old homeplace up on the Elk River. I started sawin' on the fiddle an' that's what I came up with."
''the King" with divisions, till themselves and their audience were''
''tired, after which as many players on the hautboy would in the''
''most harsh and discordant tones grate forth "Greensleeves,"''
''"Yellow Stockings," "Gillean of Croydon," or some such common''
''dance tune, and the people thought it fine music.''
</blockquote>
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Latest revision as of 16:17, 4 October 2024



According to the booklet accompanying Carpenter's LP, the story behind the tune is one of a difficult adjustment to a forced change in Ernie's life.
Elk River Blues

Played by: Jatek Zenekar
Source: Soundcloud
Image: Ernie Carpenter (1909-1997)

Elk River Blues

Composed by Braxton County, West Virginia, old-time fiddler Ernie Carpenter (1909-1997).

According to the booklet accompanying Carpenter's LP, the story behind the tune is one of a difficult adjustment to a forced change in Ernie's life. He had worked most of his life for the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company in Clarksburg, prior to retiring in 1972 to his home in Braxton County, West Virginia.

He was a regular visitor during his working years to his homeplace on the Elk River, and was witness to the planning and construction of the Sutton Dam by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on the river during the 1950's and 1960's.

Unfortunately, this resulted in the flooding of his boyhood home and the surrounding area, despite the efforts of himself and neighbors to forestall the project through a lobbyist. He refused the government's initial offer for his land (they didn't offer him anything for his house), and took the case to court.

He was able to gain a marked increase in the money he eventually was paid through this process, although he had to pay legal fees out of his pocket. He stayed in his Elk River homestead while the dam was being constructed, even though most of his neighbors had already left. Workmen blocked the roads in and out of the area, but Carpenter found alternate routes until they too were closed off.

"I was the last person out of there," he said," I went ahead then and tore the old place town and brought it up here. Part of its in this house." Of the tune, he remarked: "I was sittin' here one day, an' I had the blues. I reckon as bad as anybody could, thinkin' about my old homeplace up on the Elk River. I started sawin' on the fiddle an' that's what I came up with."

...more at: Elk River Blues - full Score(s) and Annotations


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