Annotation:Lost Girl in the Pine Woods
X:1 T:Lost Girl in the Pine Hills N:From the playing of fiddler Mulkey Kent (1907-1974, Evening Shade, N:Sharp County, Arkansas). Known as the “Dean of Old-Time N:Fiddlers,” Joseph Mulkey Kent won 31 first prizes for his fiddling, N:including the 1927 Arkansas State Fiddle Championship. Recorded N:in 1959 by John Quincy Wolf (Lyon College). M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel N:Play ABAC D:http://web.lyon.edu/wolfcollection/songs/kentlost1253.mp3 Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:G P:A "*"G2 BG cGAG|BAGE[G,4D4]|G2 BG cGAG|BGAF G4| "**"G2 BG cGAG|BAGE [G,3D3]D|G2 BG cGAG|BGAF G4|| P:B GBd=f ecec |dBd^f g2g2|dBd=f ecec |dBAG G4| GBd=f ecec |dBd^f g2g2|gedc BGAF|(G2[G,4G4])[D2d2]-| [Dd]B d2ecec|dBd^f g2g2|dBd=f ecec |dBAG G4| dBd=f ece2|dBd^f g2g2|gedc BGAF|[G,4G4]|| P:C |:G,2B,2C2[CE][CE]|DB,DF G4|G,2B,2C2[CE][CE]|DB,A,B, G,4:| P:Substitutions "*"d3B A2Gc||"**"dGBG cGAG||
LOST GIRL IN THE PINE WOODS. American, Reel (cut time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABAC. The tune was in the repertory of fiddler Joseph Mulkey Kent (1874-1959, of Batesillle, Independence County, in the Arkansas Ozarks. Kent was known as the “Dean of Old-TimeFiddlers" of the state and won 31 first prizes for his fiddling,including the 1927 Arkansas State Fiddle Championship. He was recorded in the field in 1959 by John Quincy Wolf, a folklorist from Lyon College.
