Indian Squaw (2)
X:1 T:Indian Squaw [2] S:Hiram Stamper M:C| L:1/8 N:Quite a bit of variation at each repeat. N:GDad tuning (fiddle) F:https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/indian-squaw-2 Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:G (B2d2)|(d2 d4d2|d2) d2 e2d2|G4 B2d2|{e}d2B2 A2G2|E3(F/E/ D6)|| (B2d2)d2dd|d2 ed e2 d2|B3d (B/c/B)AG|EGcE D2G2| E2cB AcAG|EGcc A2G2|E2c2 cBAG|GGB(E D2)E2| [G,3G3]A BBA2|G2[GB][GB] AGA2|E2c2 B2AG|GGB(E D2)E2|[G,4G4]||
INDIAN SQUAW [2]. AKA and see "Banks of the Arkansas." American, Reel (cut time). G Major. GDad tuning (fiddle). AB. Some similarities to Alva Greene's version (see "Indian Squaw (1)"). Hiram Stamper's [1] (1883-1992) archaic version apparently was derived from a song. Stamper whistled to the 'B' part of the tune, and sang to the 'A' part:
Way down yonder on the Arkansas,
Two old Indians and one old squaw,
Sitting on the banks of the Arkansas.
Jeff Titon (2001) finds nearly the same lyric in a song called "Bank of the Arkansas (The)" printed in Lomax and Lomax's Our Singing Country (1941, pp. 68-69), although Titon says tune that appears with that song is the same as that of Clyde Davenport's "Cornstalk Fiddle and a Shoestring Bow."
See also Missouri fiddler Bill Graves' "One Old Indian Two Old Squaws." See also Bruce Greene's version of Stamper's tune, as "Banks of the Arkansas."
