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OLD COMMON TIME. AKA and see "Squirrel Hunters (The)." American, March (4/4 time). USA, southwestern Pa. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A local Pennsylvania title for a fife march (usually known as "Squirrel Hunting" or "Squirrel Hunters"), with the time signature sufficing for a title.

Source for notated version: Hoge MS. (a fife MS, southwestern Pa.), No. 40, 1944 [Bayard].

Printed sources: Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 220E, pp. 175-176.

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