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MAXWELL GIRL. AKA and see "Buffalo Gals (1)." Old-Time, Breakdown. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was recorded by the Booker Brothers, African-American musicians from Jessamine County, Kentucky with the group Taylor's Kentucky Boys. They were one of the few bands with both white and black musicians; Jim Booker, a fiddler, was born around 1872, and played with Marion Underwood on banjo and Willie Young on guitar, and, on some sides, Aulton Ray on vocals. "Maxwell Girl" is a retitling of "Buffalo Gals (1)," with "Maxwell" substituting for "Buffalo":
Maxwell Girl won't you come out tonight,
Come out tonight, come out tonight;
Maxwell Girl won't you come out tonight,
And dance by the light of the moon.
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Recorded sources: Gennett 6205/Champion 15332/Challenge 335A (78 RPM), Taylor's Kentucky Boys (1927). Document 5167, The Booker Brothers. Yazoo Records 2200, Taylor's Kentucky Boys - "Kentucky Mountain Music."