- Style
- Old-time
- Tradition
- West Virginia and Pennsylvania old-time
- Form
- Reel
- Keys
- A and G
- Level
- 2
- Played on
- Fiddle and Mandolin
In the public domain. Source
Music
100bpm
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Chord chart
History
It is an American offshoot of the Irish reel known as "Molly Brallaghan" or "Molly Brannigan," a relative of "The Greenfields of America." Clay County, West Virginia, fiddler Wilson Douglas said his mentor French Carpenter first heard it from his own father and never knew where it came from.
The Fuzzy Mountain String Band recorded it in A, but their source, West Virginia fiddler Lee Triplett, played it in G, and today players use both keys about equally. Samuel Bayard collected a rhyme for the first part in Pennsylvania.
Old Mother Flanagan, never be a man again, Hole in her stockin', heel kept a-rockin'.