The Raw Recruit
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Raw Recruit", also known as "Chapel Hill Serenade", "Coleman Killed His Wife",<br> "Green Willis(the Raw Recruit)", "The New Rigged Ship" or "Old Hickory" is an American<br> march in 6/8 time and D Major. It was known in southwestern Pa., Michigan and Missouri.<br> The parts are played AB (Bayard, Christeson) or AABB (Sweet).<br> Versions known as "Green Willis" are usually in 4/4 time.<br> Samuel Bayard in Dance to the Fiddle, March to the Fife (1981) calls it an "extraordinarily<br> well-known" tune, both as a fife and fiddle piece, though primarily known to fifers in<br> southwestern Pa. Paul Gifford finds a version of the melody in northern Michigan used for<br> the ditty "Old Lady in the Haymow" with ribald lyrics and he thinks that it is probably the<br> "Two-Step Quadrille" recorded for Gennett Records (and Silvertone) by Tommy Dandurand in<br> 1927. Missouri fiddler Art Galbraith recorded the song under the title “Charley Over the<br> Water".<br> It was printed sources in Bayard's Dance to the Fiddle (1981),<br> Christeson's Old Time Fiddlers Repertory, vol. 1 (1973) (appears as an untitled quadrille),<br> Hopkins' American Veteran Fifer (1905),<br> Sweet's Fifers’ Delight (1965/1981).<br> It was recorded by Michael, McCreesh & Campbell on The Host of the Air (1980).<br>
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