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, Virginia, 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?" Lundy was recorded in Galax in 1941 by Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress, and was accompanied on guitar by his son, Kelly Lundy. Mr. Lundy's friend, Parley Parson, also recorded the tune.

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: Library of Congress AFS AFS 04938 B03, Emmett Lundy (1941). Rounder, Huston Caudill (Va.) - "Old Originals, vol. 2" (1978). String Records (2) ‎– STR802, Emmett Lundy - "Fiddle Tunes From Grayson County, Virginia" (1977).

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Hear Emmett Lundy's recording on youtube.com [1]