Annotation:Goodbye My Honey I'm Gone (1)

Tune properties and standard notation

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GOODBYE, MY HONEY, I'M GONE. AKA and see "Bye-Bye My Honey I'm Gone." Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, Missouri. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. Originally recorded by the Grant Brothers, and by the Pickard Family, both in 1929. There are lyrics to the tune (reminiscent of songs such as "Mole in the Ground"), some of which go:

Goodbye, my honey, I'm gone,
Oh, goodbye, my honey, I'm gone;
I'm going far away but I'll think of you each day,
Oh, goodbye, my honey, I'm gone.

Mark Wilson suggests connections with latter-Minstrel era songs.

Source for notated version: Bill Conley (b. 1946, Mountain Grove, Mo.), learned from Paul Jones, brother of fiddler Alton Jones [Beisswenger & McCann].

Printed sources: Beisswenger & McCann (Ozarks Fiddle Music), 2008; p. 178.

Recorded sources: Challenge 990 (78 RPM), Pickard Family (1929). Rounder 0437, Bill Conley - "Traditional Fiddle Music of the Ozarks, vol. 3: Down in the Border Counties" (2000).

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