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Green Willis
Old-Time, New England; Breakdown or Reel. USA, Southwestern Va. D Major.
ARTIST: From Kuntz, Fiddler's Companion, http://www.ceolas.org/tunes/fc;
CATEGORY: Fiddle and Instrumental Tunes DATE: Late 1800’s
RECORDING INFO: Folk Legacy FSI-74, Howard Bursen - "Cider in the Kitchen" (1980. Learned from the Correctone String Band). Kicking Mule 209, Bob Carlin and Henry Sapoznik- "Melodic Clawhammer Banjo." Kicking Mule KN-327, "Scartaglen" (1984). Rounder 0010, "Fuzzy Mountain String Band" (1972. Learned from Taylor Kimble of Laurel Fork, Va.). Bursen, Howard (Howie). Cider in the Kitchen, Folk Legacy FSI-074, LP (1980), cut# 3; Carlin, Bob; and Hank Sapoznik. Melodic Clawhammer Banjo, Kicking Mule KM 209, LP (1976), cut#A.06; Fuzzy Mountain String Band. Fuzzy Mountain String Band, Rounder 0010, LP (1972), cut# 7; Kimble Family. Carroll County Pioneers, Marimac 9036, Cas (1992), cut# 24; Kretzner, Leo; and Jay Leibovitz. Pigtown Fling, Green Linnet SIF 1019, LP (1979), cut#B.03; Michael, McCreesh & Campbell. Host of the Air, Front Hall FHR-023, LP (1980), cut# 8b (Raw Recruit);
OTHER NAMES: "First Come in Was a Bumble Bee," "Green Willis the Raw Recruit," "New Rigged Ship," "The Raw Recruit," "Chapel Hill Seranade," "Jackson's March;" “Noddin' Boy;”
SOURCES: Fuzzy Mountain String Band (Durham, North Carolina) [Brody]; Danny Gardella [Phillips]. Brody (Fiddler's Fakebook), 1983; pg. 127. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), 1994; pg. 105. Welling (Welling's Hartford Tunebook), 1976; pg. 2; Kuntz, Fiddler's Companion, http://www.ceolas.org/tunes/fc;
NOTES: "ADAE or Standard. AABB. Green Willis was a 19th century fiddler from the Galax, Viriginia, area whose name became associated with the tune. A related tune and probably ancestral tune (actually the same melody in jig version) is "New Rigged Ship." It has been stated that a waltz setting is known as "The Peekaboo Waltz," however, the tune usually known by the latter title seems not to be related." (Kuntz, Fiddler's Companion, http://www.ceolas.org/tunes/fc).
LYRICS:
Drinkin' moonshine at the age of fifteen,
Caused poor Willis' face to turn green;
Then it turned red, 'cause he was ashamed,
So we'll play the tune that goes by the name
Of...Green Willis.
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