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Boating Up Sandy
See: Davy (Weems); Going Down the River; Barlow Knife
Old-time breakdown; southeast.
ARTIST: Al Hopkins and His Buckle Busters; Charlie Bowman Fiddler
Listen: Uncle Earl- (instrumental) Boatin' Up Sandy
Listen: Owen "Snake" Chapman-(instrumental) Boatin' Up Sandy
Listen: Clyde Davenport- (instrumental) Boatin' Up The Sandy
Listen: Wilson Douglas- (instrumental) Boatin' Up The Sandy
CATEGORY: Fiddle and Instrumental Tunes; DATE: 1800s; 1911 (Thomas & Leeder);
RECORDING INFO: Boating Up Sandy
Baker, Kenny; and Joe Greene. High Country, County 714, LP (1968), trk# A.01
Chapman, Owen "Snake". Fiddle Ditty, June Appal JA 061C, Cas (1990), trk# 10
Chapman, Owen "Snake". Walnut Gap, Rounder 0418, CD (1999), trk# 14
Smith, Paul. Devil Eat the Groundhog, Rounder 0409, CD (1999), trk# 8
Boating Up the Sandy [Me IV-E 37]
Rt - Flatwoods
Uf - Barlow Knife
Brody, David (ed.) / Guitar Picker's Fakebook, Oak, Sof (1984), p 33 (Boating Up Sandy)
Brody, David. Brody, David (ed.) / Fiddler's Fakebook, Oak, Sof (1983), p 50 (Boating Up Sandy)
Carlin, Bob. Brody, David (ed.) / Banjo Picker's Fakebook, Oak, Fol (1985), p 33b
Deseret String Band. Land of Milk and Honey, Okehdokee 74002, LP (1974), trk# 2b
Deseret String Band. Banjo Newsletter, BNL, Ser (1973-), 1975/08,p15
Douglas, Wilson. Boatin' Up the Sandy, Marimac AHS 1, Cas (1989), trk# 7 (Boating Up Sandy)
Douglas, Wilson. 2nd Annual Brandywine Mountain Music Festival, "75 Tradition..., Heritage (Galax) 012, LP (1976), trk# 11 (Boating Up Sandy)
Hollow Rock String Band. Hollow Rock String Band, Rounder 0024, LP (1974), trk# B.01 (Boating Up Sandy)
Hughes, Delbert. Home Recordings., Augusta Heritage AHR 015, Cas (1994), trk# B.02 (Boating Up Sandy)
Johnson, Sara and Maynard. Pickin' Magazine, Pickin' Magazine, Ser, 1978/05,p33
Kretzner, Leo; and Jay Leibovitz. Pigtown Fling, Green Linnet SIF 1019, LP (1979), trk# B.07 (Boating Up Sandy)
Levy, Bertram; and Peter Ostroushko. First Generation, Flying Fish FF 392, LP (1987), trk# 10c (Boating Up Sandy)
Mearns, Molly. Hellman, Neal / Dulcimer Songbook, Oak, Sof (1977), p39 (Boating Up Sandy)
Thompson, Tommy. Banjo Newsletter, BNL, Ser (1973-), 1975/08,p14
Boating Up the Sandy [Me IV-E 37]
Uf - Forks of (the) Sandy
RELATED TO: Flatwoods
OTHER NAMES: Barlow Knife; Going Down the River; Boating Up the River; Davy; Walking in the Parlor
SOURCES: Kuntz; Folk Index
NOTES: Kuntz gives four different listings for the title which is used for Barlow Knife and also the Pretty Betty Martin/Fire in the Mountain/Hog-eye songs. Beacuse teh title is a floating title it's hard to track the various versions. The first version was recorded in 1927 (see: Version 2) by Al Hopkins and his Buckle Busters with Charlie Bowman on fiddle.
It was recorded as "Walking in the Parlor" by Obed Pickard of the Pickard family in 1928. it was recored as "Davy" by the Weems String Band (see: Davy) and Going Down the River by Dr. Smith's Champion Hoss Hair Pullers (see: Going Down The River).
Here's some listings by Andrew Kuntz:
BOATIN' UP (THE) SANDY [1]. Old‑Time, Breakdown. USA, W.Va., Kentucky. G Major. Standard tuning. AABB. The Big Sandy River is the border dividing two states. Bobby Fulcher (1986) says the tune "only occasionally" appears in Kentucky fiddler's repertories, as it does in Clyde Davenport's (Monticello, Ky.). Source for notated version: "this tune was played on a mouth harp by Zeff Burgess, June 1911, at the head of the Big Sandy when he was 'loggin'" [Thomas & Leeder]; Clyde Davenport (Ky.) [Phillips]. Brody (Fiddler’s Fakebook), 1983; pg. 50. Thomas and Leeder (The Singin’ Gathering), 1939; pg. 66. County 788, Clyde Davenport ‑ "Clydescope: Rare & Beautiful Tunes from the Cumberland Plateau" (1986).
BOATING UP SANDY [2]. Old-Time, Breakdown. A Major ('A' part) & A Mixolydian ('B' part). Standard tuning. AABB. Source for notated version: Owen “Snake” Chapman (Ky.) [Phillips]. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1), 1994; pg. 32.
BOATING UP SANDY [3]. Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, West Virginia. A Dorian. Standard tuning. ABB'. The tune is a member of a tune family including "Hog Eye an' a 'Tater," "Hog Eye Man [1]," "Hog Eye," "Granny, Will Your Dog Bite? [1]," "Sally in the Garden [1]," "Fire on/in the Mountain [1]" (there are several tunes by this name; it is a "floater"), and, in some respects "Betty Martin." Known as a West Virginia tune, it is in the repertoire of Wilson Douglas (W.Va.) who learned it from one of his strongest influences, the regionally famous and influential fiddler French Carpenter (W.Va.). Also in the repertoire of Braxton County, W. Va., fiddler Melvin Wine (d. 1999). Source for notated version: Wilson Douglas (W.Va.) & Mel Marshall [Phillips]. Johnson (The Kitchen Musician: Occasional Collection of Old‑Timey Fiddle Tunes for Hammer Dulcimer, Fiddle, etc.), 1982 (revised 1988 & 2003); pg. 9. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), vol. 1, 1994; pg. 32. Document 8040, “The Hill Billies/Al Hopkins and His Buckle Busters: Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order, vol. 2” (reissue). Marimac Recordings, 1989, Wilson Douglas ‑ "Boatin Up Sandy." Rounder 0024, "The Hollow Rock String Band" (1974. Learned from Doc White, Ivydale, W.Va., who called it “Gal with the Blue Dress On”).
BOATIN’ UP SANDY (4). Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, Kentucky. Neither of the two common versions. Rounder CD0380, Roger Cooper (Lewis County, Ky.) - “Going Back to Old Kentucky” (1996).
Boating Up Sandy by Al Hopkins and His Buckle Busters; Charlie Bowman Fiddler
Lord I’m boatin’ up Sandy River
Yes, I’m boatin’ up Sandy River
Swing Ma swing Pa,
Swing that gal from Arkansas,
Take it through the back and promenade all
Swing that gal close on the wall.
All night long, swing that lady, swing
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