Buena Vista (2)

 BUENA VISTA [2]. American, March (2/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. According to Bayard (1981) this was a song and fife piece (apparently not related to version #1) named probably after a Mexican War battle. Several song titles were attached to the tune, some about Lafayette, but the one that attached its name to this version was published in 1852 and began: On Buena Vista's mountain chain, Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah! Bayard finds the tune in a volume called The Evening Companion under the title "La Fayette's Welcome Quickstep," and as the vehicle for a few old songs, including "Look Out Upon the Stars, My Love" etc. Source for notated version: a manuscript by fifer Thomas Hoge (Greene County, Pa., 1944) [Bayard]. Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 279, p. 233.

X:1 T:Buena Vista [2] M:2/4 L:1/8 S:Bayard K:D d|da af|fd dg|f>d e>c|d2 zd|da af|fd dg|f>a a/g/f/e/ d3:|
 * d|c>d ee|d>e fd|c>d ee|d>e fd|da af|fd dg|1 f>d e>c|d3:|2 f>d a>c|d3||

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