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