Red Wing - G MajorReel, Airi

	G	G	C	G
	D7	GEm	A	DD7
	G	G	C	G
	D7	GEm	AmD	GG7
:	C	C	G	G
	D	D	G	G	:

Tune Information

Author: Kerry Mills

Origin: USA - New York

This tune was written in 1907 by Kerry Mills, an American ragtime composer and music publishing executive during the Tin Pan Alley era. The tune is and based on Fröhlicher Landmann, von der Arbeit Zurückkehrend from Album für die Jugend, Op.68 by Schumann (No 10). The tune's subtitle was An Indian Fable, which reflected the early 20th century fad for things Native-American. Lyrics for the tune were written by Thurland Chattaway and it has been recorded many times in various forms by John Wayne, Woodie Guthrie, and others.

Ref: https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Red_Wing

Ref: https://thesession.org/tunes/11447

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Wing_(song)

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerry_Mills

Arkansas Traveler - D MajorReeli

D	G	A	D
G	E	A	A
D	G	A	D
D	G	A	D
D	A	D	A
D	G	D	A
D	A	D	A
D	G	A	D

Tune Information

Author: Sanford Faulkner

Origin: USA - Midwest

This tune was either composed or collected and popularized in the 19th century by Colonel Sanford C. 'Sandy' Faulkner. He claimed that after becoming lost in rural Arkansas and asking directions at a rustic log home, he received a surly welcome until he was able to provide the second part of the fiddle tune, possibly Arkansas Traveler, being played by the home's occupant. It was the state song of Arkansas from 1949 to 1963 and has been the state historical song since 1987.

Ref: https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Arkansas_Traveler_(1)

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Arkansas_Traveler_(song)

Ref: https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/arkansas-traveler-505/

Ref: https://thesession.org/tunes/5583

Farewell to Whisky - G MajorPolka, Airi

:	G	Am	G	Bm
	CG	AmD7	CD7	G	:
:	G	AmD7	G	C
	CG	AmD7	CD7	G	:

Tune Information

Author: Neil Gow

Origin: Scotland

This is a lament written in the late 1700's for the closing of the Whisky distilleries in Scotland. It may also be played as a slow air. The forbidding of distilling whisky was due to a national grain shortage at the time, but the ban was subsequently lifted. Whisky was required for births, weddings and funerals so Scots often buried stores for forthcoming ceremonies. There is a story in Glenlyon of a man who emigrated, forgetting his whisky. He wrote back saying where it was buried but they never found it, or so they claimed.

Ref: https://thesession.org/tunes/1529

Ref: https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Farewell_to_Whiskey_(1)

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