Annotation:Chinquapin (1)
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CHINQUAPIN/CHINQUIPIN. AKA and see "Too Young to Marry," "Sail away Ladies (6)." Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, Virginia. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A chinquapin is an edible dwarf chestnut. The tune is known to fiddlers Roscoe Parish (Coal Creek, Carroll County, Va.) as "Chinquapin," while Tommy Jarrell (Mt. Airy, N.C.) has recorded it as "Sail away Ladies (6)" (it is not related to the tunes that usually go by that title).
Source for notated version: Roscoe Parrish (Va.) [Phillips].
Printed source: Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 2), 1995; p. 31.
Recorded sources: Heritage V, Roscoe & Leone Parish, John Patterson and the Piper's Gap Ramblers - "Old Time Tunes from Coal Creek" (1975). Rounder 0320, Bob Carlin & John Hartford - "The Fun of Open Discussion."