Pigtown Fling
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Pigtown Fling", also known as "Stoney Point", "Buck Creek Girl/Gals", “Buffalo Breakdown”,<br> "George Brown's Bonvivant", "Goin' Up Chaney", "Hop Along Sally”, "Kelton's Reel",<br> “Off with Your Jacket”, "Old Dad”, "Old Mother Goodwin" (Pa.),<br> "Stony Point Reel" (Pa. title, 1866), “Warm Stuff”, "Wild Horse”,<br> "Wild Horses at Stoney Point" is an American, Scottish, Irish Reel in G Major & E Minor.<br> It is one of a number of tune variations and titles derived from "Miss McLeod's Reel" and its<br> Scottish ancestor "Mrs. MacLeod of Raasay". "Pigtown Fling" is the common New England title<br> for this widely known tune.<br> Chet Parker, a hammered dulcimer player from western New York, called it “Buffalo Breakdown”.<br> There are similarities to “Nigger in the Woodpile", "In the Woodpile” and “Cotton Patch”.<br> It is called “Pigtown” in County Donegal, Ireland, although Perlman (1979) says it was<br> originally a Co. Kerry polka, also called "Pigtown".<br> The banjo tablature is by John Letscher. His comment:<br> There's a really great square dance scene in The Long Riders That features this tune.<br> It was collected from seven southwestern Pa. fiddlers by Samuel Bayard.<br> It was printed in Adam's Old Time Fiddlers' Favorite Barn Dance Tunes (1928), American<br> Veteran Fifer (1905) (as "George Brown's Bonvivant"), Bayard's Dance to the Fiddle (1981),<br> Bulmer & Sharpley's Music from Ireland (1974), Christeson's Old Time Fiddler's Repertory (1973),<br> Kerr's Merry Melodies (1880’s), Krassen's Appalachian Fiddle (1973), Skinner's Harp and<br> Claymore (1904) and many others.<br> It was recorded by Jilson Setters (who used the pseudonym Blind Bill Day) (1928)<br> as "The wild horse on Stoney Point", The Chieftains, Bob McQuillen & Old New England,<br> Leo Kretzner & Jay Leibovitz and others. <br>
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