Annotation:Going Down the River

Tune properties and standard notation

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GOING DOWN THE RIVER. AKA and see "Boatin' Up Sandy," "Sandy River" (Western N.C. title), "Little Dutch Girl (1)" (Ozark title), "Sailing Down the River," "Davy Davy." Old-Time, Breakdown. USA; Kentucky, N.C., Missouri. A Major. AEae tuning (J.P. Fraley) (fiddle). AABB. The following words are associated with the tune:

Oh, my little girl, if you don't do better,
Put you on a boat, gonna send you down the river.
Boat began to sink, my heart began to quiver,
Oh, my little girl, you're goin' down the river.

Source for notated version: fiddler J.P. Fraley (Rush, Ky.) [Brody, Phillips].

Printed sources: Brody (Fiddler's Fakebook), 1983; p. 121. Johnson (Kitchen Musician No. 2: Old-Timey Fiddle Tunes), 1982 (revised 1988, 2003); p. 5. Kaufman (Beginning Old Time Fiddle), 1977; pp. 87-88. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1), 1994; p. 98.

Recorded sources: County 519, Dr. Smith's Hoss Hair Pullers- "Echoes of the Ozarks, vol. 2." Library of Congress AFS 4806-A-2, 1941, Western N.C. fiddlers Osey and Ernest Helton (as "Sandy River"). Rounder 0037, J.P. and Annadeene Fraley- "Wild Rose of the Mountain."

See also listing at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]

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Tune properties and standard notation