Annotation:Jiggs on Parade

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JIGGS ON PARADE^[1]. AKA and see "Tom Brown's Burletta." American, Jig (6/8 time). USA, southwestern Pa. G Major: D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A fife tune from Pennsylvania. Bayard begs comparison with a slow Scottish marching tune in Glasgow publisher James Aird's Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs (1785; vol. 2, No. 3) called "Dundee Volunteer's March (The)."

Additional notes
Source for notated version : - Hiram Horner (fifer from Westmoreland and Fayette Counties, Pa., 1961) [Bayard].

Printed sources : - Hopkins (American Veteran Fifer), 1905; No. 30 (appears as "Tom Brown's Burletta"). Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 473, p. 446.

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