Tune Req: Pretty Girl Dressed in Blue

Subject: Pretty Girl Dressed in Blue
From: dulcimer
Date: 01 Apr 02 - 08:57 PM

This is an Ozark old time fiddle tune. Anyone have a source for abc or midi? Another title my be Girl Dressed in Blue or Pretty Little Girl Dressed in Blue.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Pretty Girl Dressed in Blue
From: Sorcha
Date: 01 Apr 02 - 09:15 PM

Dark Girl Dressed in Blue at JC's Tunefinder. GIF returns sheet music, and if you click on it first, then MIDI, you can minimize the MIDI and follow the sheet music. I'll see what Google has to say.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Pretty Girl Dressed in Blue
From: masato sakurai
Date: 01 Apr 02 - 09:27 PM

Only canty info from The Fiddler's Companion.

LITTLE GIRL DRESSED IN BLUE. Old-Time. The title appears in a list of traditional Ozark Mountain fiddle tunes compiled by musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph, published in 1954. ()

~Masato

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Pretty Girl Dressed in Blue
From: Sorcha
Date: 01 Apr 02 - 09:43 PM

Google was no help.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Pretty Girl Dressed in Blue
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 01 Apr 02 - 10:34 PM

A real bargain out there! "American Music Favorites," $4.95. Includes "Little Girl Dressed in Blue." Country, bluegrass and gospel chords and lyrics! Now if I get it right: Favorites

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Pretty Girl Dressed in Blue
From: John J
Date: 02 Apr 02 - 02:48 AM

There's also the tune called 'The Girl with the Blue Dress On'.

John

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Pretty Girl Dressed in Blue
From: John J
Date: 02 Apr 02 - 02:53 AM

Re: 'Dark Girl Dressed in Blue', I learnt that tune as being called 'The New Wrexham Hornpipe', but I'm not sure if that name is correct..everybody else calls it 'Dark Girl Dressed in Blue'.

Confused of Altrincham.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Pretty Girl Dressed in Blue
From: dulcimer
Date: 02 Apr 02 - 06:58 AM

Thanks for the info. I had checked out JC Tunefinder and Fiddler's Companion. I'm not sure that Dark Girl Dressed in Blue is the same tune. What I heard recently was not a tune similar to Over the Waterfall.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Pretty Girl Dressed in Blue
From: Snuffy
Date: 02 Apr 02 - 07:59 AM

Stanley Holloway recorded a song called "Dark Girl Dressed in Blue", but I'm not sure if it used the traditional tune.

WassaiL! V

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Pretty Girl Dressed in Blue
From: Louie Roy
Date: 02 Apr 02 - 09:46 AM

There is a tune called the Little Girl Dressed In Blue written and recorded by F.N.Vinard in 1932 and many fiddlers play it quite often Today.If this is the tune you want I can post the lyrics but no music Louie Roy

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Pretty Girl Dressed in Blue
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 02 Apr 02 - 03:42 PM

Vinard music published by Calumet. Dealers want $10 for it. The book I posted earlier throws in a lot for $5. The Vinard is probably an arrangement; the tune is older, I believe.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Pretty Girl Dressed in Blue
From: Mark Ross
Date: 02 Apr 02 - 04:07 PM

I seem to remember Kenny Hall & the Sweetsmill String Band playing a song with that title around the Bay area in the '70's.

MArk Ross

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Pretty Girl Dressed in Blue
From: Ian Darby
Date: 02 Apr 02 - 07:05 PM

'Little Girl Dressed in Blue' was the 'B' side of 'Beatle Crazy' a talking blues by Bill Clifton back in the 60's.

Wish I had the damn thing now, it's probably worth a fortune.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Pretty Girl Dressed in Blue
From: dulcimer
Date: 03 Apr 02 - 10:20 PM

Post Lyrics Please

Subject: Lyr Add: THE LITTLE GIRL DRESSED IN BLUE
From: Louie Roy
Date: 03 Apr 02 - 10:51 PM

THE LITTLE GIRL DRESSED IN BLUE

1. I fell in love with a pretty little girl. Her name I do not know.
I meet her in the evening wherever I may go.
She wears a white lace handkerchief. It's marked with "T" and "U".
I know her when I see her, the little girl dressed in blue.

CHORUS: O, she almost drives me crazy and I don't know what I'll do
If I don't find that pretty little girl that I saw dressed in blue.
She almost drives me crazy and I don't know what I'll do
If I don't find that pretty little girl that I saw dressed in blue.

2. I met her on the street one day. She looked at me so shy,
And when the horses saw her, they both began to fly.
They ripped and rared and snorted and down the street they flew
Until I passed that pretty little girl, that little girl dressed in blue.

3. If I can find out where she lives and where she does belong,
I'll tell to her my story, the burden of my song,
And if I cannot find her, my heart will break in two
And I will die and bid farewell to the little girl dressed in blue.


[Hope this is the tune you are looking for and this is the way I learned it back in the 1930s, and we had this on a 78 and it was sung by F. N. Vinard in 1932. Louie Roy]

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Pretty Girl Dressed in Blue
From: masato sakurai
Date: 03 Apr 02 - 11:00 PM

From Folk Music Index:

Little Girl Dressed in Blue

1. Hall, Kenny; and the Sweets Mill String Band. Kenny Hall and the Sweets Mill String Band, Bay TPH-727, LP (1973), cut#A.06
2. Moore, Lee. Everybody's Favorite, Rural Rhythm RRLM 202, LP (197?), cut#A.01
3. Wear, DeWayne; and the Great Wear Family. Hoe Down! Vol. 4, Rural Rhythm RR 121, LP (197?), cut# 9

~Masato

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Pretty Girl Dressed in Blue
From: GUEST,Dan Wilson
Date: 04 Sep 08 - 03:32 PM

the way I remember the song, the 4th line in the 3rd verse should be:
"they ripped and reared and ran a'scared"