Susannah Gal
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Susannah Gal", also known as "Susannah Girl" is an American reel in 2/4 or<br> cut time and D Major. The parts are played AA’BB’.<br> There are variations known in Patrick, Grayson and Surry Counties in Virginia.<br> There are similarities to "Sally Ann" and "Fly Around". This version is from<br> Emmett Lundy (1864-1953), who, even though a Grayson County,<br> Virginia fiddler, had a version similar to the Patrick County versions.<br> Kelly Lundy, accompanying his father Emmett on guitar, sang floating verses on<br> their 1941 recording:<br> I wish I was in some western country,<br> Sittin' in a rockin' chair;<br> My arm around my whisky jug,<br> The other around my dear.<br> <br> I wish I had a hog in the pen,<br> Corn to feed him on;<br> Pretty little girl to stay at home,<br> And feed him when I'm gone.<br> <br> Fly around my pretty little miss,<br> Fly around my daisy;<br> Fly around my pretty little miss,<br> You almost run me crazy.<br> <br> The banjo tablature is by John Letscher. His comments:<br> This one tends to the Round Peak tune, specifically Tommy Jarrel.<br> The title is as above (Western Country(Suzannah Gal)) plus Susanna Gal and /or<br> Suzy Anna Gal. Your Choice!<br> It was printed in Clare Milliner & Walt Koken's Milliner-Koken Collection of<br> American Fiddle Tunes (2011).<br> It was recorded on The Old Virginia Fiddlers: Rare Recordings 1948-49 and by<br> Emmett Lundy (1941 on an Alan & Elizabeth Lomax field recording),<br> Dad Blackard's Moonshiners on It'll Never Happen Again: Old Time String Bands,<br> Vol. 1,<br> Emmett W. Lundy on Emmett W. Lundy: Fiddle Tunes from Grayson County, Virginia<br> (1977. A reissue of Lundy's 1941 Library of Congress recordings).<br>
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