Annotation:Gilda Roy
X:1 T:Gilda Roy N:John Morgan Salyer (1882-1952, Salyersville, Magoffin County, east Ky.), N:from a home recording 1941/42 by his sons Glen & Grover. M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel Q:"Fast" D:Berea College Appalachian Center AC 003, John M. Salyer - D:"Home recordings, 1941-1942" (1993). D:https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/gilda-roy D:https://soundarchives.berea.edu/items/show/4217 Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:C cd|| e2 ef gedd|edcc +slide+[e2e2]eg|[M:2/4] e2cc|[M:C|]AGEC DCCC|DCCD C2ef| gcef edcc|cdef e2c2|AGEC DCCC|DCCD C2ef| gcef edcc|cdef e2c2|AGEC DC3 eegg|a2g2 egga| [M:2/4]g2ge| [M:C|] gedg ed c2 |egg(g a2)g2|egag g2d2|eaab a2ab|aged edcc| cdef e2ef|gcdc de c2|cdef e2c2|AGEC DC2D|[M:2/4]c3d||
GILDA ROY. American, Reel. USA, south-eastern Kentucky. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABC. No musical relation to the tune that is usually known as "Gilderoy (2)" or "Red Haired Boy." The title, however, is a corruption of "Gilderoy" which itself is an Englished version of the Gaelic giolla ruadh, or 'red-haired boy'. The tune was recorded in 1937 by the Alan and Elizabeth Lomax for the Library of Congress from the playing of Kentucky fiddler W.H. Stepp. Magoffin County, eastern Kentucky, fiddler John Salyer (1882-1952, who called the tune "Gilda Roy") played the 'f' notes so that they sound almost 'f#'. Similarities with the "Billy in the Lowground (1)" family of tunes.
