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X:1 % T:Sail away Ladies [4] S:J.P. Fraley (Rush, Ky.) M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel D:Rounder 0037, J.P. and Annadeene Fraley - "Wild Rose of the Mountain” (1974) Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:G [DB]-|[D3d3][DB]-[D2d2][D2d2]|g2AB [G4c4]|[D3A3]A[F2A2][D2A2]|cBAc [G4B4]| [G3B3]A [GB][GA]GF|E[C2E2][C4E4]|(F[F2A2])B AGFE|D[G3B3][G3B3]A| BABc d2ef|g2 AB [G4c4]|[D3A3]A[F2A2][D2A2]|([Gc][GB][GA][Gc]) [G4B4]| [G3B3]A [GB]AGF|E[C2E2][C4E4]|(F[F2A2])B AGFE|D[G3B3][G3B3]|| |:D|G,2B,D BAGF|E2 [CE][CE][C2E2]GE|DEFG ABcA|B2 GB AGED| G,2B,D BAGF|E2 [C2E2][C4E4]|DEFG AcBA|[G6B6][GB]:|]

SAIL AWAY LADIES [4]. Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, Kentucky. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Silberberg): ABB (Titon): AABB (Brody, Phillips). No relation to “Sail Away Ladies (1)," the tune that usually goes by this title and is a member of the “Sally Ann (1)”/"Great Big Taters in the Sandy Land" tune family. Some have suggested that the tune may be related to Ed Haley’s “Indian Ate/Eat the Woodchuck,” but others do not hear the resemblance. Gus Meade and Mark Wilson, however, point to a relation with Kentucky fiddler Kenny Baker’s “Indian Killed a Woodcock.”

Additional notes

Source for notated version: - J.P. Fraley (Rush, Boyd County, Ky.), learned from his father, Richard Fraley, also a fiddler, who called the tune by the “Sail Away” title. According to Betty Vornbrock, Fraley remembers hearing Arthur Smith’s version (“Sail Away Ladies [1]") on the radio long after he learned his father’s version [Brody, Phillips, Silberberg].

Printed sources : - Brody (Fiddler’s Fakebook), 1983; p. 242. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1), 1994; p. 207. Silberberg (Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern), 2002; p. 137. Titon (Old Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes), 2001; No. 141, p. 167.

Recorded sources: - Bee Balm 302, “The Corndrinkers.” Rounder 0037, J.P. and Annadeene Fraley - "Wild Rose of the Mountain” (1974).