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X:1 T:Texas Gals S:Alonzo Elvis "Tony" Alderman (1900-1983, western Virginia, with the Hill Billies) M:C| L:1/8 Q:"Quick" D:Vocalion 5021 (78 RPM), The Hill Billies (1927) F:https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/texas-gals Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:C B2-|c2c2 AcdB|cdcA G2(AB|c)Bc2AcdB|cdcA G2[_EB]-| [=E2c2][E2c2]AcdB|cdcA G2(A2|B2)G2 A2B2|cBcd c2:| |:^f2-|g2 ga g2 ed|cBcd c4|egag a2gg|ec2d c2(^f2| g)ega g2[ee][de]|cBcd +slide+[e2e2]cA|G(AB)G AG[G2B2]|+slide+[E3c3]d [E2c2]:| C2-|C2 C2 ECDE|DE-F2 F3(A|B)AGB a2g2|cAga g2C2-| C2C2 ECCE|FEFG F3(A|B)AGA B2G2|[Ec]B[Ec]d c2C2-| C2C2 ECCE|FDFE F3(A|B)AGB a2g2|cAga g2C2-| C2C2 ECCE|FEFG F3(A|B)AGA B2G2|[Ec]B[E2c2]- [E2c2]||

TEXAS GALS. AKA - "Texas Gales." AKA and see “Knockin’ at Your Door [2].” American, Reel (cut time). USA. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. "Texas Gals" is a tune associated with the southwestern Virginia and northwestern North Carolina region. The variant title “Texas Gales” title comes from the Doc Watson recording of the tune, but Kerry Blech, for one, believes it was a miss-hearing of “Texas Gals,” spoken in a North Carolina drawl. See also Gene Goforth’s cognate “Knockin' at Your Door.”

Additional notes

Source for notated version: - The Hillbillies [Brody].

Printed sources : - Brody (Fiddler’s Fakebook), 1983; p. 274. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1), 1994; p. 239.

Recorded sources: -County 405, "The Hillbillies." Document 8040, “The Hill Billies/Al Hopkins and His Buckle Busters: Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order, vol. 2” (reissue). Folkways FA 2366, "Watson Family." Kicking Mule 206, Eric Thompson "Kicking Mule's Flat Picking Guitar Festival." Mountain 310, Tommy Jarrell "Joke on the Puppy" (1976. Learned from Rafe Brady). Ridge Runner 0005, Roland White "I Wasn't Born to Rock 'n Roll." Rounder CD0403, The Freight Hoppers - “Where’d You Come From, Where’d You Go?” Vanguard VSD 6576, Doc Watson "Ballads From Deep Gap." "Wretched Refuse String Band.”

See also listing at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]
Hear the Hill Billies 1927 recording at Slippery Hill [2] and youtube.com [3]

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