Annotation:Girl with the Blue Dress On (2) (The)
Tune properties and standard notation
GIRL WITH THE BLUE DRESS ON [2], THE. AKA and see "Shane O'Neill's March." American, March (2/4 time). USA, southwestern Pa. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. A fife piece, the favorite of the Rices Landing Band, a martial organization from Greene county Pa. No relation to version #1. John Hartford finds the tune printed by O'Neill as "Shane O'Neill's March." Influential eastern Ky./W.Va. fiddler Ed Haley played this tune and Charlie Acuff played a cousin to this tune, also in the key of G Major (Hartford).
Source for notated version: Marion Yoders (Greene County, Pa., 1960) [Bayard].
Printed sources: Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 246, p. 205.
Recorded sources: Rounder 0392, John Hartford - "Wild Hog in the Red Brush (and a Bunch of Others You Might Not Have Heard)" {1996}.