Sourwood Mountain

X:4
T:Sourwood Mountain
N:Transcribed by David Bennett from the playing of western N.C.
N:fiddler Bill Hensley in 1939. Hensley attributed the composition
N:of "Sourwood Mountain" to a Virginia fiddler named "Blind Wiley
N:Laws, whom he described as a "terrible" fiddler (using the old
N:meaning of the word as a synonym for 'awesome').
M:2/4
L:1/8
R:Reel
N:AEae tuning (fiddle). Hensley called this the "Shelton Laurel Key."
N:"+" = pizzicato note
B:David Parker Bennett - "A Study in Fiddle Tunes from
B:Western North Carolina", dissertation UNC, Chapel Hill, 1940, pp. 77-78.
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:A
V:1 clef=treble name="4."
[V:1] A2|{E}A/-B/c/B/ A2|(c/B/)A/B/ A(F/A/)|EA A(a/f/)|(e/c/)B/A/ A>E|
EE A2|(c/B/)A/B/ A(F/A/)|EA A(a/f/)|(e/c/)B/A/ AE-|
E/A/B/c/ ee|f/e/f/a/ ec|(c/e)e/ e/f/(a/f/|e/)c/B/c/ A>{E}A-|
A/A/B/c/ ee|a/b/a/f/ e/c/B/c/|(c/e)e/ e(a/f/)|(e/c/B/)A/ A(A/B/|
c/)"+"e "+"Ac|B/A/F/A/ A(F/A/)|[A,E]A A(a/f/|e/)c/B/A/ A([A,E]|
E/)C/E/F/ AA|c/A/B/c/ AF/A/|EA A(3a/f/e/|(e/c/)B/A/ A{E}A-|
A/A/B/c/ ee|f/e/f/a/ ec|(c/e)e/ e(a/f/)|(e/c/)B/A/ A>{E}A-|
A/A/B/c/ ee|a/b/a/f/ e/c/B/c/|[^B/e/][ce]e/ e(a/f/)|(e/c/B/)A/ A(A/B/|
c)"+"e "+"Ac|B/A/F/A/ A(F/A/)|EA A(e/f/)|(e/c/)B/A/ A([A,E]|
E/)C/E/F/ AA|c/A/B/c/ A(F/A/)|EA A(e/f/)|(e/c/)B/A/ AE-|
EC/E/ EE|C/E/F/A/ [CE]C|(C/E)E/ E(A/F/)|E/-C/B,/C/ A,[CE]-|
[C/E/][C/E/]E/E/ EE|[C/F/][C/E/]F/A/ [CE]C|(C/E)E/ E(A/F/)|(E/C/)B,/C/ A,a-|
aa/b/ c'a-|a/a/c'/b/ af|ea c'e'-|e'/c'/b/c'/ aa/b/|
c'e' a2|b/a/c'/b/ af|ea c'e'-|e'/c'/b/c'/ aa/b/|
c'e' a2|b/a/c'/b/ af|ea c'e'-|e'/c'/b/c'/ aA-|
A/A/B/c/ ee|f/e/f/a/ ec|c/ee/ e(a/f/)|(e/c/B/)A/ A([EA]|
A/)A/B/c/ ee|a/b/a/f/ e/c/B/c/|(c/e)e/ e(a/f/)|(e/c/)B/A/ A(A/B/|
c)"+"e "+"Ac|B/A/F/B/ A(F/A/)|EA A(e/f/)|(e/c/)B/A/ AE-|
E/E/E/F/ AA|c/B/A/B/ A(F/A/)|EA A(a/f/|e/c/)B/F/ AE-|
E/)C/E/F/ AA|c/B/A/B/ A(F/A/)|EA A"end of record"||

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