Annotation:Waves on the Ocean

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WAVES ON THE OCEAN. AKA and see "Old Woman Old Woman," "Pleasures of the Single Life." Old Time, Breakdown. USA, southwesternVirginia. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Krassen): AABB (Phillips). Miles Krassen (1983) says that Galax fiddler Emmett Lundy claimed this tune developed from a song popular in the area called "Old Woman, Old Woman, Don't You Want To Marry?"

Source for notated versions: Emmett Lundy(Grayson County, Virginia) [Krassen, Phillips].

Printed sources: Krassen (Masters of Old Time Fiddling), 1983; p. 33. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1), 1994; p. 253.

Recorded sources: Rounder, Huston Caudill (Va.) - "Old Originals, vol. 2" (1978).

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