Annotation:Good Lager Beer
X:1 T:Old-Fashioned Schottische M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Schottische B:Ford - Traditional Music in America (1940) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:G G/A/|BB/B/ Bc/B/|B/A/A/A/ AB/c/|dB/c/ dF/F/|A/G/G/G/ G:| |:g/f/|ec/c/ cg/e/|dB/B/ BB/c/|dB/c/ dF/F/|A/G/G/G/ G:||
GOOD LAGER BEER. AKA and see "Frost's on the Pumpkin and the Fodder's in the Shock (The)," "Sweet Potato Pie." American, Schottische. USA, southwestern Pa. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The tune is derived from "Tulip (The)," a Scottish march-tune composed by Janes Oswald and published in his Airs for the Spring, c. 1747. This "Tulip" tune has also been the source for other rather well-known tunes (and many songs), including "Wearing of the Green (The)," and "Balance a Straw" which is a more elaborate version of the Pennsylvania "Good Lager Beer." Ford (194) remarks that his "Old-Fashioned Schottische" was a popular dance number in the years following the Civil War, and was made up from parts of a song named "Sweet Marie" and "Captain with His Whiskers (The)." West Virginia fiddler Melvin Wine played this tune and called it "Yankee Farmer (The)."
