"Wild Rose of the Mountain" is an old-time reel in A Major/Mixolydian. The parts are played AA’B (Silberberg), AABB (Brody, Phillips) or AA'BB' (Reiner & Anick). The tune, popularized via the playing of Kentucky fiddler J.P. Fraley (1924–2011), is a moderately paced reel, played deliberately almost as a listening tune. The story attached to the tune, according to Reiner & Anick, says it was "written for a beautiful girl who strayed from one man to the next at local (Kentucky.) dances" although their source for this tale is unknown. There is some discrepancy about whether the G note in the next to last measure of the second strain should be sharp or natural. There are similarities with Henry Reed’s "Kitchen Girl". The tune is crooked with irregular measures in both parts. It was printed in Brody's Fiddler's Fakebook (1983) and Guitar Picker's Fakebook (1984), Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 2 (1995), Reiner & Anick's Old Time Fiddling Across America (1989) and Silberberg's Fiddle Tunes I Learned at the Tractor Tavern (2002). It was recorded by Cape Cod Fiddlers on Concert Collection II (1999), Fiddle Fever on Fiddle Fever (1981. Appears as part of "Daybreak in the Mountains") John McCutcheon on Fine Times at Our House (1982), The Wind That Shakes the Barley (1977) and Water from Another Time. A Retropective (1989), Jay Ungar and Lyn Hardy on Songs, Ballads, and Fiddle Tunes (1975), J.P. and Annadeene Fraley on Wild Rose of the Mountain (1974), J.P. Fraley on Rounder Fiddle (1990) and David Schnaufer on Collecting Dust (1999).