Annotation:Getting Up the Stairs

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 GETTING UP THE STAIRS. Old-Time, Breakdown (2/4 time). A Major. AEae tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. Some similarities to Edden Hammond's "Sugar in the Gourd."  Source for notated version: Clyde Davenport (b. 1921, Wayne County, Ky.) [Milliner & Koken].  Printed sources: Milliner & Koken (Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes), 2011; p. 235.  Recorded sources: Field Recorders Collective, FRC104 - "Clyde Davenport, Vol. 2" (2005).

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