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|f_annotation='''SWEET EVELINA.''' AKA - "Dear Evalina," "Sweet Evalina." American, Waltz and Song Tune (3/4 time). USA; Arkansas, Oklahoma. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABB. The title appears in a list of traditional Ozarks Mountains fiddle tunes compiled by musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph, published in 1954. | |f_annotation='''SWEET EVELINA.''' AKA - "Dear Evalina," "Sweet Evalina." American, Waltz and Song Tune (3/4 time). USA; Arkansas, Oklahoma. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABB. The title appears in a list of traditional Ozarks Mountains fiddle tunes compiled by musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph, published in 1954. | ||
''Way down in the meadow, where the lily first blows,''<br> | |||
''Where the wind from the mountain ne'er ruffles the rose;''<br> | : | ||
''Lived fond Evelina, the sweet little dove,''<br> | ''Way down in the meadow, where the lily first blows,''<br /> | ||
''The pride of the valley, the girl that I love.''<br> | ''Where the wind from the mountain ne'er ruffles the rose;''<br /> | ||
<br> | ''Lived fond Evelina, the sweet little dove,''<br /> | ||
Cho:<br> | ''The pride of the valley, the girl that I love.''<br /> | ||
''Sweet Evelina, dear Evelina,''<br> | <br /> | ||
''My love for thee shall never, never die.'' ....[Ford] | Cho:<br /> | ||
|f_printed_sources=Ford ('''Traditional Music in America'''), 1940; p. 142 (additional lyrics on page 403). | ''Sweet Evelina, dear Evelina,''<br /> | ||
|f_see_also_listing=Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/s21.htm#Sweev]<br> | ''My love for thee shall never, never die.'' ....[Ford] | ||
|f_printed_sources=Ford ('''Traditional Music in America'''), 1940; p. 142 (additional lyrics on page 403). John Lair ('''100 WLS Barn Dance Favorites'''), 1935; p 27. | |||
|f_recorded_sources=Marimac 9059, Lynn "Chirps" Smith - "Midwestern Harvest" (1994). MSOTFA 101, Vee Latty - "Fever in the South" (1992. Originally recorded c. 1955). Yodel-Ay-Hee 1-8327, Critton Hollow String Band - "Poor Boy" (1979). | |||
|f_see_also_listing=Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/s21.htm#Sweev]<br /> | |||
Hear Oklahoma fiddler Burrell Reed's home recording by Chris Delaney at Slippery Hill [https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/sweet-evelina-waltz] | Hear Oklahoma fiddler Burrell Reed's home recording by Chris Delaney at Slippery Hill [https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/sweet-evelina-waltz] | ||
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SWEET EVELINA. AKA - "Dear Evalina," "Sweet Evalina." American, Waltz and Song Tune (3/4 time). USA; Arkansas, Oklahoma. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABB. The title appears in a list of traditional Ozarks Mountains fiddle tunes compiled by musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph, published in 1954.
Way down in the meadow, where the lily first blows,
Where the wind from the mountain ne'er ruffles the rose;
Lived fond Evelina, the sweet little dove,
The pride of the valley, the girl that I love.
Cho:
Sweet Evelina, dear Evelina,
My love for thee shall never, never die. ....[Ford]
