Annotation:Swing Lady Home
X:1 T:Swing Lady Home N:From the playing of fiddler Art Stamper (1933-2005, east Ky. & Louisville) M:C| L:1/8 Q:"Fast" R:Reel N:BEae tuning (fiddle) D:County CD 2729, Art Stamper - "Goodbye Girls, I'm Going to Boston" (2000) D:https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/swing-lady-home Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:A [EA][E2B2][EB]c||Se2 ef e2 ([Ec]-[EB]-|[A2E2])[AE][cE] [B2E2]Bc|e2 ef e2 c2|[AE]-[BE]- [B2E2][B2E2]c2| e2 e-f e2 [cE]-[BE]-|[A2E2][AE][cE] B2 {B}cB|[M:2/4]A2 ((3FGF)|[M:C|] [B,8E8]|| [EA]-[EB]-[EB]c BAFG|[E2A2] [EA]-[EB] [E2c2][Ec][EA]|[EA]-[EB][EB][Ec] [EB]AFE|A2 (3FGF [E4A4]| [EA]-[EB]-[EB]c BAFE|[A2A2] [E2A2] [EB]-[Ec]-[Ec](A|[E2B2])[EB]c BA F2|[M:3/2]A2 (3FGF [E4A4][E2B2]c2S||
SWING LADY HOME. American, Song Air (cut time). A Major. BEae tuning (fiddle). Art Stamper learned the tune from the banjo playing and singing of his father Hiram, and converted it to a fiddle tune. He remembered words to the tune (that turn out to be the chorus), similar to a singing-call for dancing, as:
Swing the lady up and down, swing the lady round;
Swing the lady up and down, swing the lady home.
Ruth Crawford Seeger included the tune in her book on children's folk songs, and her daughter Peggy sang it on a CD based on the book. Peggy sang this verse with the chorus given above:
I built my lady a fine brick house, I built in a garden;
I put her in, but she jumped out, So fare thee well, my darling.
The tune has some resemblance to “Johnson Boys.”
