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|f_see_also_listing=Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/l12.htm#Losgi3]<br> | |f_see_also_listing=Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/l12.htm#Losgi3]<br> | ||
Hear John Salyer's 1940-41 home recording at Berea Sound Archives [https://soundarchives.berea.edu/items/show/4236] and at Slippery Hill [https://www.slippery-hill.com/content/lost-girl-0]<br> | Hear John Salyer's 1940-41 home recording at Berea Sound Archives [https://soundarchives.berea.edu/items/show/4236] and at Slippery Hill [https://www.slippery-hill.com/content/lost-girl-0]<br> | ||
Hear Walter McNew's 1990 field recording by Steve Green at Berea | Hear Walter McNew's 1990 field recording by Steve Green at Berea Sound Archives [https://soundarchives.berea.edu/items/show/5356]<br> | ||
Hear Alva Greene's 1973 field recording Kevin Delaney at Berea Digital Archives [ | Hear Alva Greene's 1973 field recording Kevin Delaney at Berea Digital Archives [https://soundarchives.berea.edu/items/show/961] <br> | ||
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X:1 T:Lost Girl [1] S:Emmett Lundy (1864-1953, Galax, Va.) M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:G [Ae]-[B2g2][Bg] [B2g2][Bg][Bg]|agaba2b2|[Ae]-[B2g2][Bg] [B2g2]aa|aa b2b2a2| [Ae]-[B2g2][Bg] [B2g2]gg|abab a2b2|abaf gede|gedB AG3:| |:[EB][EA][EB]d e3d|[EB]ABd B2A>A|BABd e2 ed|gedB A2GA| [EB][EA][EB]d e3d|BABG (AB)GD|GABd e2ae|gedB A2 G2:|
LOST GIRL. American, Reel (cut time). USA, Magoffin County, Kentucky. G Major (Silberberg, Titon): C Major (Phillips/McNew, Songer). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Silberberg): AABB (Songer, Titon): AA'BB (Phillips). The melody is nowadays known as a Magoffin County, Kentucky, melody, associated with the playing of John Salyer and Walter McNew (of neighboring Rockcastle County, Ky.). Jeff Titon (2001) writes that the tune is thought to have come to Kentucky from Virginia (an older Galax, Va., fiddler, Emmett Lundy, for example, played a version), but that it is not a common tune in Kentucky, although different versions exist. It was played at the Berea, Kentucky, fiddlers contests in 1919 and 1920 by H.F. Green and by Anderson Bowling, according to records of the events reviewed by Titon. Further afield, the title appears in a list of traditional Ozarks Mountain fiddle tunes compiled by musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph, published in 1954 (although it is not known to what music this title was applied to in that region i.e. it may or may not be related to the Kentucky tune).
"Lost Girl" is usually played in G major (c.f. Emmett Lundy, John Salyer), although versions in C major are not uncommon (c.f. Walter McNew, and Oregon's Foghorn Stringband on their album "Weiser Sunrise", for example). See also the related "Old Beech Leaves," and John Salyer's own "Lost Boy, a variant or elaboration of "Lost Girl."
