Beaux of Oak Hill (1)

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BEAUX OF OAK HILL [1]. AKA - "Beaux of Oak Hall." AKA and see "The Boys of Bluehill," "Boys of North Tyne," "Silver Lake [4]" (Pa.), "Jennie Baker," "The Two Sisters [1]." English, Scottish, American; Hornpipe (usually) or Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Cole, Kennedy, Jarman, O'Neill): AA'BB (Kerr). The tune appears as "The Two Sisters" in George P. Knauff's Virginia Reels, volume I (1839), though it usually appears as "Beaux of Oak Hill" in mid-nineteenth century collections. Paul Tyler finds a tune called the "Bows of Oak Hill" mentioned in an old issue of the Dallas Morning News as having been played by Col. William Hopkins of Kansas City on WFAA-Dallas on Dec. 1, 1922. Printed sources: Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; pg. 28 (reel setting). Jarman (Old Time Fiddlin' Tunes); No. or pg. 28. Kennedy (Fiddlers Tune Book), vol. 1, 1951; No. 14, pg. 7 (Hornpipe). Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 2; No. 328, pg. 36. Kerr (Caledonian Collection). O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903/1979; pg. 316 (as "Boys of Bluehill"). O'Neill (Krassen); pg. 197 (as "Boys of Bluehill"). Ryan's Mammoth Collection, 1883; pg. 52.

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