Annotation:Fiddler's Dram (1)

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 FIDDLER'S DRAM. AKA and see "Give the Fiddler a Dram." Old-Time, Breakdown. USA; central West Virginia, northeast Alabama. G Major. Standard or DGdg (Harvey Sampson) tunings (fiddle). AABB. The tune was a standard one in the square dance fiddler repertoire as asserted by A.B. Moore in History of Alabama (1934) {Cauthen, 1990}.  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Spandaro (10 Cents a Dance), 1980; p. 42.  Recorded sources: Augusta Heritage Recordings AHR-004C, Harvey Sampson and the Big Possum String Band - "Flat Foot in the Ashes" (1986/1994. Learned by Calhoun County, W.Va., fiddler Harvey Sampson from his father). Fantasy 24711, "The Holy Modal Rounders."

|Tune properties and standard notation