35. Off She Goes- Sanders (WV) 1924
35 - OFF SHE GOES
(0ld-Time FiddLor's Tune)
Communicated by Miss Frances Sanders, Morgantown, Monongalia Couaty, June , 1924, who noted the music. She writes: "This is a good example of an old-time fiddler's tune. It is lively, snappy, has a good swing, is easily remembered, and is not hard to play. The notes given are the unembellished tune. Every fiddler, I have been told, plays it to suit his taste, added his own embellishments and variations. The variations usually consisted of extra tunes in the melody or in the omission of small figures. While I was taking down the notes, the man who was playing it played it differently three times.
There is a local story connected with it: A certain Mr. Crawford said that when hls father was lying at the point of death, he called for a fiddler. When asked what he would llke to hear, he replied, "Off She Goes." The tune was played and at the end of it when the fiddler looked at the old man, he was dead."
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