Annotation:Bostony
X:1 T:Bostony M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Reel N:Transcribed by John Hartford "from Morris Allen, from Ed N:Haley of a John Harrod tape." B:Stephen F. Davis - The Devil's Box, vol. 31, No. 2, Summer 1997, p. 13. Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:G gb af|gf g2|eg g>a|ba- a2|c'2 e2|f/e/f/g/ f2|df/e/ d/c/B/A/|G>G G2|| DG B>d|ed d2|cE F>F|AG G/F/E|DG B>d|ed dB|cE FD|G2||
BOSTONY. American, Reel (2/4 time). "Bostony" was a tune in the repertoire of blind northeast Kentucky/W.Va. fiddler biography:Ed Haley, as remembered by people around Portsmouth, Ohio, where the Northern and Southern fiddle traditions tended to mix (Mark Willson & Guthrie Meade, 1976). Fiddler Morris Allen (of South Shore, Kentucky) also remembered it as a part of Haley's repertoire. Mark Wilson also believes the title to be a corruption of Bostonia, the name of a magnificent steamboat that plied the Ohio River ports of Cincinnati, Portsmouth, Maysville, Big Sandy and Huntington in the 1870's, usually with a tiny orchestra aboard. John Hartford (1996) notes that there were not one, but six steamboats at various times on the Ohio by the name of 'Bostonia'.
