Sandy Boys
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Sandy Boys" is a 19th century minstrel tune from Virginia.<br> Most people don't know much about this tune but it keeps popping up in jams anyway.<br> The Sandy Boys were the fellows who had worked in the logging camps of Virginia<br> through the winter and who lived and farmed along the Sandy River in the summer months.<br> I have heard and seen a lot of versions of this. This is my own composite version.<br> Most versions are in A Mixolydian. I think the A part sounds better in straight A minor<br> without the C#'s. I like them in the B part so I have set it in Mixolydian.<br> I think that way it sounds a lot like I heard it played by Alan Jabbour and Ken Perlman.<br> It was also recorded by Edden Hammonds, Sara Grey and others.<br>
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