Buck Creek Girl
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Buck Creek Girl", also known as "Buck Creek Girls",<br> "Wild Horse",<br> "Stony Point",<br> "Pigtown Fling"<br> or "Old Dad" is an American reel in cut time and G major.<br> "Buck Creek Girl" was in the repertoire of Fiddlin' Cowan Powers 1877-1952<br> (Russell County, southwestern Va.) and recorded by him in 1924 for Victor, although<br> the side was not issued. The title appears in a list of traditional Ozarks Mountains<br> fiddle tunes compiled by musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph, published in 1954.<br> Randolph, who said Ozarks fiddlers consider the tune "ancient and difficult to play",<br> thought the tune "sounds like common old<br> 'Stoney Point'."<br> However, there were two<br> "Buck Creek Girl" tunes extent in the upland South. One was a derivative of<br> "Wild Horse" or "Stony Point", while the other, musically unrelated, was a derivative of<br> "Buffalo Gals".<br> Words to the tune were collected in 1917 by Cecil Sharp<br> and Maude Karpeles during their Appalachian collecting tour:<br> <br> Buck Creek Girls want to go to Cripple Creek,<br> Cripple Creek girls want to go to town.<br> <br> and,<br> <br> Buck Creek girls, don't you want to go to Somerset?<br> Somerset girl, don't you want to go to town?<br> <br> <br> It was printed in Sharp & Karpeles' English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians II<br> (1917) and<br> Rosenbaum's Art of the Mountain Banjo (1981).<br> It was recorded by Banjo Bill Cornett on Mountain Music of Kentucky (1996),<br> John Langstaff on Revels (2004) (as "Cripple Creek Girls"),<br> New Lost City Ramblers on There Ain't No Way Out (1997) and<br> Art Rosenbaum on Art of the Mountain Banjo (1975).<br>
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