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X:1 T:N..... Jim T:Jimmy King M:4/4 L:1/8 S:fiddler George Strosnider (1929, southwestern Pa.) B:Bayard - Dance to the Fiddle, March to the Fife (1981, No. 151) K:G B>B {c}B>A G>E G2|A>A B>A G>E G2|B>B {c}B>A G>E G2|A>A B>A G>E G2| g2 g>g a>f g>e|d>f tg>e d>B d2|g>f g>e d>B B>A|G>A B>A G>E G2||

N.....^[1] JIM. AKA and see "Jimmy King." American, Reel. USA, southwestern Pa. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. Bayard thinks it sounds like an American minstrel song tune. The title is the same as the name of a main character in Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn."

Additional notes
Source for notated version : - George Strosnider (elderly fiddler from Greene County, Pa., 1929) [Bayard].

Printed sources : - Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 151A, p. 86.

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