Old Mother Flanagan
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Old Mother Flanagan", also known as "Old Mother Finnegan", "Old Granny Flanagan",<br> "Greenfields of America", "(Pretty/Charming) (Molly/Judy/Miss)(Brallaghan/Brannigan)", <br> "Miss Wedderburn's Reel", "Sooka Flanagan" and "Sukie Flanagan" is an American reel in<br> A Major (Brody, Phillips, Silberberg) or G Major (Bayard, Kaufman, Phillips, Songer).<br> It is played in AEae or standard fiddle tunings. The parts are played AB (Bayard,Silberberg),<br> AABB (Phillips/Gardella, Songer), AA'BB' (Kaufman) or AABBCC (Brody).<br> The title appears in a list of traditional Ozarks Mountain fiddle tunes compiled by<br> musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph, published in 1954.<br> In spite of the name and feel of this tune, it is probably American and not Irish but it is<br> related to the Irish "Greenfields of America".<br> This tune is often played with the parts in reverse order,<br> starting with the B part and finishing with the A part.<br> It was printed in Bayard's Dance to the Fiddle (1981),<br> Brody's Fiddler's Fakebook (1983),<br> Kaufman's Beginning Old Time Fiddle (1977),<br> Krassen's Clawhammer Banjo (1974),<br> Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1 (1994),<br> Silberberg's Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern (2002),<br> Songer's Portland Collection (1997),<br> Titon's Old Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes (2001) (as "Sooka Flanagan").<br> It was recorded by Kenny Hall and the Sweet Mills String Band on Kenny Hall and the<br> Sweet Mills String Band,<br> John M. Salyer on John M. Salyer: Home Recordings 1941-42, Vol. 1 (1993),<br> Mike Cross on Child Prodigy (1979), Bruce Greene on Vintage Fiddle Tunes (1986),<br> Glen Smith on Say Old Man (1990),<br> Fuzzy Mountain String Band on Fuzzy Mountain String Band (1972) and Summer Oaks and Porch (1973),<br> Wilson Douglas on The Right Hand Fork of Rush's Creek (1975),<br> Haywood Blevins on Old Originals, Vol. 2 (1978),<br> Malcolm Owen & Bill Hicks on Rounder Fiddle (1990),<br> Melvin Wine on Vintage Wine (1993) and<br> Dirk Powell and John Hermann on Dirk Powell and John Hermann (1992).<br> <br>
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