Sweet Ellen
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Sweet Ellen/Sweet Ellum", also known as "Gem of Ireland", "Clarkson's Reel" or<br> "Post-Oak Grove" is an Irish reel in D Major. The parts are played AABB.<br> The Cape Breton/Prince Edward Island tune "Homeward Bound" is derivative of this tune.<br> This tune is apparently the ancestor of "Rocky Mountain Hornpipe" which was collected<br> by Samuel Bayard from Emery Martin, Dunbar, Fayette County, Pennsylvania on<br> September 29, 1943.<br> The version shown here is the one collected by Samuel Bayard from Irvin Yaugher Jr.<br> on October 19, 1943 in Mt. Independence, Pa. and was printed in Hill Country Tunes.<br> Other versions were also printed in his Dance to the Fiddle. It was well known in<br> southwestern Pennsylvania.<br> There is a version printed in Cole's 1000 Fiddle Tunes as "Gem of Ireland". Another<br> tune appears there as "Sweet Ellen".<br> It was also printed in O'Neil's Music of Ireland (1903).<br>
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