Annotation:Katie with the Buckles

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 KATIE WITH THE BUCKLES. American, Reel?. USA, southwestern Pa. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. This rhyme was collected with the tune in Pennsylvania: Long folks, short folks, have ye heerd the news? I'm goin' to marry Katie with the buckles on her shoes. ''Ha! Ho! Never could refuse--'' I'm goin' to marry Katie with the buckles on her shoes.  Source for notated version: Hiram White (elderly fiddler from Greene County, Pa., 1930's) [Bayard].  Printed sources: Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 7, p. 19.  Recorded sources:

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