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ACROSS THE SEA. AKA ‑ "Going Across the Sea." American, Reel. USA; Oklahoma, Cumberland Plateau (Ky./Tenn border region). D Major. ADae tuning (fiddle). One part. Marion Thede transcribed the tune from the playing of Billy Evans (Kiowa County, Oklahoma), who played it in scodatura tuning (ADae). "Across the Sea" was also recorded in 1946 from the playing of John Lusk (fid.), Murph Gribble (ban.) and Alvin York (gtr.) by Library of Congress collector Margaret Mayo, in Campaign, Tennessee.

Compare the Lusk String Band's version with versions by Kentucky fiddlers Isham Monday and Henry L. Bandy as "Going Across the Sea."

Additional notes
Source for notated version : - Billy Evans (Kiowa County, Okla.) [Thede].

Printed sources : - Thede (The Fiddle Book), 1967; p. 106.

Recorded sources : - County 787, Clarence Ferrill Band ‑ "Five Miles Out of Town: Traditional Music From the Cumberland Plateau." Library of Congress AFS 08507 A, Lusk, Gribble & York (1946). Rounder CD 0238, Lusk, Gribble & York - "Altamont: Black Stringband Musicfrom the Library of Congress"

See also listing at :
Hear Lusk, Gribble & York at Slippery Hill [1]

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-Compare the Lusk String Band's version with Kentucky fiddler Isham Monday and Henry L. Bandy's "[[Going Across the Sea]]."
+Compare the Lusk String Band's version with versions by Kentucky fiddlers Isham Monday and Henry L. Bandy as "[[Going Across the Sea]]."
 |f_source_for_notated_version= Billy Evans ('''Kiowa County, Okla'''.) [Thede].
 |f_printed_sources=Thede ('''The Fiddle Book'''), 1967; p. 106.