Annotation:Green Willis (1)
Tune properties and standard notation
GREEN WILLIS [1]. AKA and see "First Come in was a Bumble Bee," "Green Willis the Raw Recruit," "New Rigged Ship (1)," "Old Hickory," "Raw Recruit (The)," "Chapel Hill Seranade," "Jackson's March." Old-Time, New England; Breakdown or Reel. USA, southwestern Va. D Major. ADae or Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Green Willis was a 19th century fiddler from the Galax, Viriginia, area whose name became associated with the tune. A closely related, and probably ancestral tune (actually the same melody in jig version) is "New Rigged Ship," long popular with fiddlers and melodeon players in English traditional circles. It has been stated that a waltz setting is known as "Peekaboo Waltz (the)," however, the tune usually known by the latter title seems not to be related.
Drinkin' moonshine at the age of fifteen,
Caused poor Willis' face to turn green;
Then it turned red, 'cause he was ashamed,
So we'll play the tune that goes by the name
Of...Green Willis.
Source for notated version: Fuzzy Mountain String Band (Durham, North Carolina) [Brody]; Danny Gardella [Phillips]; Peter Boveng [Silberberg].
Printed sources: Brody (Fiddler's Fakebook), 1983; p. 127. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), 1994; p. 105. Silberberg (Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern), 2002; pg. 56. Welling (Welling's Hartford Tunebook), 1976; p. 2.
Recorded sources: Folk Legacy FSI-74, Howard Bursen - "Cider in the Kitchen" (1980. Learned from the Correctone String Band). Kicking Mule 209, Bob Carlin and Henry Sapoznik- "Melodic Clawhammer Banjo." Kicking Mule KN-327, "Scartaglen" (1984). Rounder 0010, "Fuzzy Mountain String Band" (1972. Learned from Taylor Kimble of Laurel Fork, Va.). Wildgoose Records, Rattle on the Stovepipe - "8 More Miles" (2005).
See also listing at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources []