Annotation:Gal on the Log (2)

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 GAL ON THE LOG [2]. Old-Time, Breakdown. A different tune than "Gal on the Log (1)." "Gal on the Log [2]" was recorded by Ft. Worth, Texas, fiddler Moses J. Bonner, who was born in 1847 in Alabama. Seattle fiddler and musicologist Vivian Williams writes: "'Gal on a Log' was played by fiddler Jake Lake (originally from Cook County, Illinois) at the wedding of Henry Van Asselt and Catherine Jane Maple in a cabin on the Duwamish River, near Seattle, on Christmas Day, 1862, according to an account written by the bride's brother, John Wesley Maple. Other tunes played at that wedding:  ''The Unfortunate Dog', 'Fishers Hornpipe', 'The King's Head', 'Devil's Dream', 'Arkansas Traveller'."  Source for notated version:  Printed sources:  Recorded sources:

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