Annotation:Good Lager Beer
Tune properties and standard notation
GOOD LAGER BEER. AKA and see "Frost's on the Pumpkin and the Fodder's in the Shock (The)," "Sweet Potato Pie." American, Schottische. USA, southwestern Pa. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The tune is derived from "Tulip (The)," a Scottish march-tune composed by Janes Oswald and published in his Airs for the Spring, c. 1747. This "Tulip" tune has also been the source for other rather well-known tunes (and many songs), including "Wearing of the Green (The)," and "Balance a Straw" which is a more elaborate version of the Pennsylvania "Good Lager Beer." Ford (194) remarks that his "Old-Fashioned Schottische" was a popular dance number in the years following the Civil War, and was made up from parts of a song named "Sweet Marie" and "Captain with His Whiskers (The)."
Source for notated version: Levi Hall (Fayette County, Pa., 1944) [Bayard].
Printed sources: Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 421, p. 398. Ford (Traditional Music in America), 1940; p. 162 (appears as "Old Fashioned Schottische").
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