Info on printed music from: The Fiddler's Companion:

SANDY BOYS. Old-Time, Breakdown and Song. USA; West Virginia. A Mixolydian. AEAE. ABAB'A'BAB. This has been identified as a tune from Pocahontas County, West Virginia, fiddler Edden Hammons. The original, however, appears to be in the American minstrel show repertoire, for a similar version (though different in the 'B' part from Hammonds' tune) can be found in Phil Rice's Correct Method for the Banjo (1857), a period tutor, and also appears an 1844 minstrel songbook (reproduced by Harvard Theatre College Collection, Cambridge, Mass.). Gerry Milnes has found ribald words accompanying the tune in West Virginia. The modern "revival" or "festival" version may have stemmed from a mislearning of Hammon's tune by Bob Herring. See also Missouri fiddler Gene Goforth's related "The Quail is a Pretty Bird." Sources for notated versions: Burl Hammonds (Pocahontas County, West Virginia) [Krassen]; The Hurricane Ridge Runners (Armin Barnett, Mark Graham, Jerry Gallaher & Paul Kotapish) [Songer]. Krassen (Masters of Old Time Fiddling), 1983; pg. 78-79. Songer (Portland Collection), 1997; pg. 173. Marimac 9038, Dan Gellert & Brad Leftwich - "A Moment in Time." Marimac 9054, The Ill-Mo Boys - "Fine as Frog Hair" (1995). Marimac 9040, The Heartbeats - "Living in Black and White" (1990).

~Masato