"Old Spinning Wheel"

No personal notes.

AKA - "Old Spinning Reel", "There's an Old Spinning wheel in the Parlor."

• Old-Time; Polka, Foxtrot.
• USA; Mo., Arizona.
• B Flat Major (Missouri): F Major (Arizona): D Major (Erbsen).
• Standard tuning (fiddle).

A popular foxtrot and song (words and music) by William J. "Billy" Hill [1] (1899-1940) written 1930 that has entered fiddling repertory. Hill died young in 1940, at age 41, but published numerous songs in his short career, including his most popular, "The Glory of Love." The alternate title is taken from the first line in the chorus. Arizona fiddler Kenner C. Kartchner played it in a duet with another fiddler; "Made a good foxtrot in 1930" (Shumway). Missouri fiddler Charlie Walden put the tune on his "100 Essential Missouri Fiddle Tunes" in a section of miscellaneous tunes (not breakdowns).

Source for notated version: Printed sources: Erbsen (Southern Mountain Fiddle), 1995; p. 48. Gray & Hall (Kenny Hall's Music Book).

Old Spinning Wheel

1. Covered with dust and forgotten
   Like the face upon the wall
   The one souvenir of the days gone by
   I treasure most of all

Refrain:
  There’s an old spinning wheel in the parlor
  Spinning dreams of the long, long ago
  Spinning dreams of an old fashioned garden
  And a maid with her old fashioned beau
  Sometimes it seems that I can hear her in the twilight
  At the organ softly singing “Old Black Joe�
  There’s an old spinning wheel in the parlor
  Spinning dreams of the long, long a go

2. Turn back the years of my childhood
   As you turn, old spinning wheel
   Just show me a lane with a barefoot boy
   As shadows softly steal