Silver Lake
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Silver Lake", also known as "Beaux of Oak Hill/Hall", "The Boys of Bluehill",<br> "Lonesome Katy" or "Two Sisters" is an American reel in D Major or G Major. The parts are<br> played AB.<br> It was collected from Irvin Yaugher in Fayette County, Pa. in 1944,<br> James Smalley in Westmoreland Couty, Pa., 1944, George Strosnider (elderly fiddler in<br> Greene County, Pa. in the 1930's, Issac Morris in Greene County, Pa. in the 1930's) and<br> Edward King in Greene County, Pa. in the 1930's by Samuel Bayard.<br> The "Silver Lake" title seems to be unique to southwestern Pennsylvania and the tune is<br> usually called "Beaux of Oak Hill/Hall" or "The Boys of Bluehill" elsewhere.<br> It was printed sources in Bayard's Dance to the Fiddle (1981) and<br> Cole's One Thousane Fiddle Tunes (as "Beaux of Oak Hill") (1940).<br>
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