Annotation:Susannah Gal (1)

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SUSANNAH/SUZANNA GAL [1]. AKA and see "Blue Eyed Girl/Gal," "Blue Eyed Miss" (W.Va.), “Blue Eyes Run My Crazy.”“Fare Thee Well My Pretty Little Miss,” "Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss," “Goin’ Back to Georgia,” "Western Country." American, Reel (cut time). USA; North Carolina, W.Va., Virginia. D Major. Standard or ADae (Tommy Jarrell) tunings (fiddle). AABB. A popular dance tune in the Galax (Grayson County, Va,)/Mt. Airy (N.C.) region ("A Galax standby") under several titles in the same region. It appears to be well-known in several variants through-out the upland South—see notes for “Western Country” and “Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss,” “Pretty Little Pink.”

From Mt. Airy, western North Carolina, fiddler Tommy Jarrell (in part):

16 horses in my team,
The leader he is blind
I'm going down that rocky road
To see that gal of mine.

How'd you make you living now
Susan-anna gal
Drinking whiskey and playing cards
Susan-anna gal

Additional notes
Source for notated version : - Emmett Lundy (Grayson County, Virginia) [Krassen]; fiddler and cattle farmer Edd Michael (Port Republic, Virginia) [Reiner & Anick]; Tommy Jarrell (Mt. Airy, N.C.) [Jack Tuttle/Fiddler Magazine].

Printed sources : - Fiddler Magazine, Spring 1995; p. 27. Krassen (Appalachian Fiddle), 1983; p. 35. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1), 1994; p. 235. Reiner & Anick, 1989; p. 86.

Recorded sources : - County 713, Tommy Jarrell "Susanna Gal." County 2702, Tommy Jarrell & Fred Cockerham - "Tommy and Fred." Folkways 3832, Glen Smith & Wade Ward "Western Country." Marimac Records, 1989, Wilson Douglas (W.Va.) "Boatin Up Sandy." Yodel-ay-hee Records 014, The New Dixie Entertainers - "Maybelle Rag."

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