Sweet Marie
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Sweet Marie", also known as "Old-Fashioned Schottische" is an American air or Schottische<br> in D Major. The parts are played AB. It is played in AEae fiddle tuning.<br> "Sweet Marie" was a popular song written and composed by Cy Warman (words) and Raymon Moore<br> (music) in 1893. Warman, a journalist and versifier, wrote the lyric in honor of his wife<br> and approached Moore, a popular variety stage singer, asking him to perform it. Moore came<br> up with the tune and sang it as part of the musical comedy Africa (1893) which opened in the<br> Euclid Opera House in Cleveland. Ironically, the song received only a lukewarm reception<br> after Moore sang it, but when the singer left the show when it moved to Pittsburgh, his<br> replacement, Charles Hopper, made it a widespread hit. As with many songs that attain a<br> measure of popularity, many parodies of it have been written (not the least because the<br> rhythmic meter scans same as a limerick).<br> The banjo tablature is by John Letscher.<br> It was printed in Ira Ford's Traditional Music in America (1940).<br> It was recorded by Walter Morris (1927) and<br> Benton Flippen & the Smokey Valley Boys on Fiddler's Dream (2003).<br>
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