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'''ONE MORE RIVER TO CROSS.''' Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, West Virginia. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. From West Virginia fiddler and bagpiper Franklin George. Mark Wilson (1981) says the tune bears a distant resemblance to a Negro spiritual of the same name. However, (as Joel Shimberg points out) the tune is a version of "[[Run Nigger Run]]" that was renamed by Frank George, who liked to play the tune in performance but who declined to credit the original title. | '''ONE MORE RIVER TO CROSS.''' Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, West Virginia. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. From West Virginia fiddler and bagpiper Franklin George. Mark Wilson (1981) says the tune bears a distant resemblance to a Negro spiritual of the same name. However, (as Joel Shimberg points out) the tune is a version of "[[Run Nigger Run]]" that was renamed by Frank George, who liked to play the tune in performance but who declined to credit the original title. | ||
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ONE MORE RIVER TO CROSS. Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, West Virginia. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. From West Virginia fiddler and bagpiper Franklin George. Mark Wilson (1981) says the tune bears a distant resemblance to a Negro spiritual of the same name. However, (as Joel Shimberg points out) the tune is a version of "Run Nigger Run" that was renamed by Frank George, who liked to play the tune in performance but who declined to credit the original title.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Brody (Fiddler's Fakebook), 1983; p. 208.
Recorded sources: Rounder 0035, Fuzzy Mountain String Band- "Summer Oaks and Porch" (1973. Learned from Frank George, W.Va.). Rounder SS-0145, Wilson Douglas (Ivydale, W.Va.) - "Traditional Music on Rounder: A Sampler" (1981).