Annotation:Coal Creek
X:1
T:Coal Creek
S:Manon Campbell (Ky.), recorded 1978 by John Harrod
M:C|
L:1/8
N:AEae tuning (fiddle)
F:https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/coal-creek-0
Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz
K:Amix
[M:2/4][A,2E2][E2A2]|[M:C|]cA e2e3e-|efgf e2c2|efe(=c ^c)BAc|BAFA [A,2E2][E2A2|
e2ee3e-|efgf e2c2|efe(=c ^c)BAc|BAFA ||
[E2A2][E2A2] cBA2|c2e2 cBAF| [A,2E2][E2A2] cB A2|c2e2 cBAF|
[A,2E2][E2A2] cBAB|c2e2 BAFA|[A,2E2][E2A2] cBAB|c2ec BAF2||
COAL CREEK. American, Reel (cut time). USA, Kentucky. A Mixolydian. AEae tuning (fiddle). AA'BB. A different tune than "Coal Creek March." The tune was played by only one fiddler, biography:Manon Campbell (1890-1987), who said it was the first tune he learned to play as a boy of ten or eleven, obtained from local sources (Titon, 2001). Campbell told Mark Wilson the tune at one time had words attached to it, although he remember but a fragment: " 'Do you want to go to Coal Creek; do you want to go to town? Do you want to get knocked down' or something like that" said the fiddler, who also recalled "Oh, that was just a piece that they used to frolic and dance to." Wilson sees some resemblance between Campbell's fragment and the "Sugar Hill" lyric group.
Joel Shimberg points out this tune is a close relative of West Virginia fiddler Oscar Wright's "Shootin' Creek."