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'''GOOD LAGER BEER'''. AKA and see "[[Frost's on the Pumpkin and the Fodder's in the Shock (The)]]," "[[Sweet Potato Pie]]." American, Schottische. USA, southwestern Pa. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The tune is derived from "[[Tulip (The)]]," a Scottish march-tune composed by Janes Oswald and published in his '''Airs for the Spring,''' c. 1747. This "Tulip" tune has also been the source for other rather well-known tunes (and many songs), including "[[Wearing of the Green (The)]]," and "[[Balance a Straw]]" which is a more elaborate version of the Pennsylvania "Good Lager Beer." Ford (194) remarks that his "Old-Fashioned Schottische" was a popular dance number in the years following the Civil War, and was made up from parts of a song named "[[Sweet Marie]]" and "[[Captain with His Whiskers (The)]]." West Virginia fiddler Melvin Wine played this tune and called it "[[Yankee Farmer (The)]]." | |f_annotation='''GOOD LAGER BEER'''. AKA and see "[[Frost's on the Pumpkin and the Fodder's in the Shock (The)]]," "[[Sweet Potato Pie]]." American, Schottische. USA, southwestern Pa. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The tune is derived from "[[Tulip (The)]]," a Scottish march-tune composed by Janes Oswald and published in his '''Airs for the Spring,''' c. 1747. This "Tulip" tune has also been the source for other rather well-known tunes (and many songs), including "[[Wearing of the Green (The)]]," and "[[Balance a Straw]]" which is a more elaborate version of the Pennsylvania "Good Lager Beer." Ford (194) remarks that his "Old-Fashioned Schottische" was a popular dance number in the years following the Civil War, and was made up from parts of a song named "[[Sweet Marie]]" and "[[Captain with His Whiskers (The)]]." West Virginia fiddler Melvin Wine played this tune and called it "[[Yankee Farmer (The)]]." | ||
|f_source_for_notated_version=Levi Hall (Fayette County, Pa., 1944) [Bayard]. | |||
|f_printed_sources=Bayard ('''Dance to the Fiddle'''), 1981; No. 421, p. 398. Ford ('''Traditional Music in America'''), 1940; p. 162 (appears as "Old Fashioned Schottische"). | |||
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GOOD LAGER BEER. AKA and see "Frost's on the Pumpkin and the Fodder's in the Shock (The)," "Sweet Potato Pie." American, Schottische. USA, southwestern Pa. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The tune is derived from "Tulip (The)," a Scottish march-tune composed by Janes Oswald and published in his Airs for the Spring, c. 1747. This "Tulip" tune has also been the source for other rather well-known tunes (and many songs), including "Wearing of the Green (The)," and "Balance a Straw" which is a more elaborate version of the Pennsylvania "Good Lager Beer." Ford (194) remarks that his "Old-Fashioned Schottische" was a popular dance number in the years following the Civil War, and was made up from parts of a song named "Sweet Marie" and "Captain with His Whiskers (The)." West Virginia fiddler Melvin Wine played this tune and called it "Yankee Farmer (The)."
