X: 1
T:Rustic Reel
R:jig
B:Kerr's Merry Melodies Bk.1, p29
N:I have a 78rpm record by The Grafton
N:Quartet on which they play this tune
N:Andrew Kuntz wrote:
N:The tune was well-known in Canada and the US under a variety of titles,
N:including  "City Guards," "First Western Change," "Jinny O Jinny My Toes Are
N:Sore," "Libby Prison Quickstep," "Monongahela March," "O Dear Mother My Toes
N:Are Sore," "Rustic Reel" and "Virginia Reel."  Ryan's Mammoth Collection
N:(1883) is the earliest appearance in print that I find, however, one version
N:was collected by William Sidney Mount and sent to his dancing master brother,
N:c. 1845. Mount has recently been mentioned on Fiddle-L and was a fiddler and
N:painter who lived on Long Island, NY.  Among his famous works are a few with
N:fiddling and dancing in rustic settings. Libby prison was an American Civil
N:War prison. That, coupled with the Mount reference would date it the the
N:mid-1800's at least, in the US.
Z:Nigel Gatherer irtrad-l 2001-5-21
M:6/8
K:D
A | f2 e dcB | A2 F D2 E | FGF FED | F3 E2 A | f2 e dcB | A2 F D2 E |
FGF EDE | D3 D2 || A | g2 e f2 d | c2 d ecA | g2 e f2 d | cec A2 A |
g2 e f2 d | cde fga | ece dcB | A2 B cde || f2 e dcB | A2 F D2 E |
FGF FED | F3 E2 A | f2 e dcB | A2 F D2 E | FGF EDE | D3 D2 ||


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Tune-58808-Rustic_Reel_1.abc 1284 ABC music file with the extracted tune(s)
Tune-58808-Rustic_Reel_1.txt 1284 Plain-text file with the extracted tune(s)
Tune-58808-get.log 3075 Log file, useful mostly for debugging
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