My Ozark mountain girl

Recording includes My Ozark Mountain GirlCollected by Irene Carlisle Transcribed by Nathaniel Lucy Told by James M. Walden Busch, Arkansas November 18, 1951 Reel 135 Talk: Dances Irene Carlisle: . . . the difference is different players. That's what makes one man a good player and one not. James M. Walden: . . . up here in Missouri, no different, the name of Caplinger. I'd rather hear that man play a violin than anybody I ever heard in my life. Of course all of his is note music. But he can play a piece by note and sit down and play it. But then you can't square dance. I've tried it. And I played him for dances, you know. And, but boy, when you come down to playing a waltz or one-step or foxtrot, now listen, that man couldn't be beat! Carlisle: Uh-hmm. Walden: But then you'd . . . square dance - Come here Peter! Come here! Take this thing. I ain't got no use now. He didn't play anything like what I do, you know. And he'd add tunes in there. Well the old time dances used to be nothing like they are today. Because you got your four couple out there. And when you hollered "Bow and seat" that meant all the four men jig. And then you'd holler "Swing" and then they would swing. And . . . would jig all around, they'd go swinging right and left and come to one-and-a-half swing. Carlisle: Well, it was a lot livelier of a dance wasn't it? Walden: Oh sure! Carlisle: You said you could call a lot of square dancing Mr. Walden. I sure would love to hear - to get you to call some. Walden: Well, I've got too much of a cold to try it today. Maybe sometime later on we can get some of them. Sometime later on, If I can get a hold of a guitar, I will sing you a little ditty that I have made myself Carlisle: Is that so? Walden: That's one of the sweetest songs of the Ozarks you've ever heard. Carlisle: I wish to go over it now. Walden: Well, I'll try.Funding for digitization provided by the Arkansas Humanities Council and the Happy Hollow Foundation