Annotation:Tennessee Hornpipe
X:1 T:Tennessee Hornpipe S:Collected by Samuel Bayard from S. Clark in the 1930's. M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Jig B:Bayard - Dance to the Fiddle, March to the Fife (1981, No. 499, p. 458) K:G G|G>Bd d>Bd|e>dB d2g|f>ef ABc|e>dB d>cA| G>Bd d>Bd|e>de d2g|fga e2f|g3 g2|| |:a|b>ag a>gf|g>fe d2e|e>dB d>Bd|e>dG d2:| G-|G>Bd d>Bd|e>de d2g|f2a eef|g3 g2||
TENNESSEE HORNPIPE. American, Jig (6/8 time). USA, southwestern Pa. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABBC. Collector and musicologist Samuel Bayard found a version of the tune set as a waltz in the English "Shepherd's Wife (The)," and also noticed a general resemblance to Canadian radio and TV fiddler Don Messer's "Bell's Favorite." Where his source, Sylvester Clark, might have learned the tune/title is unknown, however, as Bayard points out, the substitution of descriptives such as 'reel', 'jig', 'hornpipe', etc., can be found in numerous instances in Britain, Ireland and North America. It often denotes a local customary naming practice.
