The Last of Sizemore
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Last of Sizemore" is an old-time breakdown in D Major. It is played in Standard,<br> AEae or ADae fiddle tunings. The parts are played AABBC (Titon) or AA'BB'CC' (Phillips).<br> Jeff Titon finds that there are a few different tunes that go by this title.<br> Eastern Kentucky fiddler Hiram Stamper told Titon the title<br> refers to a soldier named Sizemore who, for some unknown reason, was taken up a<br> hollow and shot, during or just after the Civil War. Stamper said he learned the<br> tune (with the same story) from fiddlers Dan Triplett, Shade Sloan and Silas Terry,<br> all Civil War veterans. Santford Kelly had another tale: Sizemore in his version is<br> on his deathbed and plays a last tune which is overheard by another fiddler who is<br> out plowing his garden and who commits it to memory.<br> This version of the melody was recorded in 1937 for the Library of Congress from<br> Kentucky fiddler Boyd Asher. <br> It was printed in<br> Milliner & Koken's Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes (2011),<br> Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1 (1994),<br> Titon's Old Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes (2001) and<br> Lamancusa's The Gettysburg Collection of Old-Time Fiddle Tunes (2021).<br> It was recorded by Luther Strong on Traditonal Southern Instrumental Styles (1978) and<br> Jim Taylor on The Civil War Collection (1996).<br> <br>
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