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YOUNG EDWARD. AKA and see "Lonesome John." Old-Time, Air (whole time). A Major. AEae tuning (fiddle). Played as a moderately paced listening tune up to breakdown speed. "Young Edward," from Knott County, Kentucky, fiddler Hiram Stamper [1], is derived from the air to “Drunkard’s Dream (The),” a ballad whose first line is:

Young Edward you look so handsome now,

Stamper himself sang the following couplet (but could not remember any more of the lyric), for Bruce Greene:

I dreamed I staggered home one night,
Through dark and dismal gloom.
I missed my wife where could she be?
And strangers filled the room.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources:

Recorded sources: Crooked Jades – “Seven Sisters.” Shanachie Records, Gerry Milnes & Lorraine Lee Hammond – “Hell Up Coal Holler” (learned from Hiram Stamper). June Appal JA-087, Charlie Stamper – "Glory to the Meeting House" (2014). Shanachie 6040, Gerry Milnes & Lorraine Lee Hammond – “Hell Up Coal Holler” (1999. Learned from the playing of Hiram Stamper). Christian Wig - "Chadwell's Station: Fiddling on the Frontier" ().

See also listing at:
Hear Bruce Greene's 1977 field recording of Hiram Stamper playing the tune at Berea Digital Content [2] and the Digital Library of Appalachia [3]
See/hear Hiram's son Charlie Stamper play his version of his father's tune on youtube.com [4]