Annotation:St. Paul Waltz
X:1 T:St. Paul Waltz C:A.J. Vass (1864) M:3/4 L:1/8 K:C {^d}e6 | {e^}e6 | {^d}ez c3A | G6 | {^f}g6 | {^f}g6 | {^f}gz b3a | (g2 ^f2 =f2) | {^d}e6 | {e^}e6 | {^d}ez c3A | G6 | g3g g2 | f2e2d2 | c2G2e2 |1 cGABcd :|2 c2 z2 d2 |: c'c'c'c'c'c' | c'2b2a2 | bbbbbb | b2a2g2 | aaaaaa | a2e2f2 |1 g2b2e'2 | d'4 d2 :|2 g2z2g2 | f2 ^f2=f2 :| {^d}e6 | {e^}e6 | {^d}ez c3A | G6 | {^f}g6 | {^f}g6 | {^f}gz b3a |(g2 ^f2 =f2) | {^d}e6 | {e^}e6 | {^d}ez c3A | G6 | g3g g2 | f2e2d2 | c2G2e2 | c2 || K:F |: c2f2 | a2z2a2 | z2 {^g}a2 {^g}a2 | c'2 z2 b2 | z2 a2g2 | f2z2e2 | z2 {^d2}e2 {^d2}e2 | g2z2f2 | z2 c2f2 | a2z2a2 | a2z2a2 | z2 {^g}a2 {^g}a2 | c'2 z2 b2 | z2 a2g2 | f2z2e2 | z2 a2 g2 | f3ff2 | f2z2z2 :|]
ST. PAUL WALTZ. Amerian, Waltz (3/4 time). C Major (‘A’, ‘B’ parts) & F Major (‘C’ part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AA’BBACC. The melody was first published under this title in 1864 by Cady & Root (Chicago), with the composition credited to A.J. Vaas. However, Seattle fiddler, producer and researcher Vivian Williams finds the same tune under the name "St. Louis Waltz" in an undated fragment of an edition of Elias Howe’s Musician’s Omnibus (c. 1870?).
Country and Western musician Tex Owens adapted this tune for his song “Cattle Call,” which became a huge western hit for Eddy Arnold, the Tennessee Plowboy. The melody can be heard sung by the Sons of the Pioneers in the classic western movie Rio Grande (1950), directed by John Ford, starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara.
