Annotation:Elephant Hotel

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 ELEPHANT HOTEL. American, Waltz. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'B. Composed c. 1980 by fiddler Jay Ungar (West Hurley, N.Y.) inspired by a building in Somers, N.Y. (which considers itself the home of the American circus), dedicated to Barnum and Bailey's first elephant.  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Matthiesen (Waltz Book I), 1992; pp. 58-59.  Recorded sources:

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