Richmond Blues
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Richmond Blues" is also known as "My Love is but a Lassie Yet", "Love<br> Somebody", "Too Young to Marry", "Sweet Sixteen", "Yellow Eyed Cat",<br> "Chinky Pin", "Midnight Serenade", "Fourth of July", "Buffalo Nickel",<br> "Hair in the Butter", "The Farmer Had a Dog", "Ten Nights in a Bar Room",<br> "Lead Out", "Darling Child" or "I'm My Momma's Darling Child" is an<br> American reel. It is not an African-American blues form melody.<br> The melody somewhat resembles "The Sailor's Hornpipe".<br> The melody appears under this title in George P. Knauff's Virginia Reels,<br> volume II (1839). The title probably commemorates the Richmond Light<br> Infantry Blues, of Richmond, Virginia which were called the Richmond<br> Blues, for short. The unit was formally commissioned in 1789 and<br> like many militia units of the day, functioned as a social society as well<br> as a military unit. The Richmond Blues saw service in several wars,<br> although the elite company was usually absorbed into larger units during<br> wartime (in the Civil War they were with Wise’s Brigade).<br> The melody was originally that of a very popular Scottish air and reel<br> usually appearing as "My Love She's but a Lassie Yet" in the British<br> Isles and often by sources in Canada and the northern U.S. As an old-time<br> dance melody it is popular under the titles “Too Young to Marry” and<br> “Sweet Sixteen” in the southern Piedmont region and elsewhere in the<br> South. Jim Taylor (1995) says the tune (under all of its various titles)<br> was a favorite among military fifers in the Civil War.<br> It was recorded by Jim Taylor on The Civil War Collection (1996).<br>
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