334. The Pennsylvania Boy

 

334 The Pennsylvania Boy

'The Pennsylvania Boy.' Sung by Miss Lura Weaver. Recorded at Piney

Creek, Alleghany county, in 1921. This score is marked "Fragment." Cf. NAB

178, 'Young Companions,' 'Bad Companions'; also CS (1938) 212-14.

 


My home's in Penn-syl - van - ia, A - mong the west - em

 

hills. The mem-'ry your hearth-stone Is in my mem-'ry still.
For melodic relationship cf. *OFS 11 139-41, No. 161 ('Taney County').

Scale: Hexachordal, plagal. Tonal Center: e-flat. Structure: abb^c (2,2,2,2).