Annotation:Farmer Killed His Ox Today (The)

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 FARMER KILLED HIS OX TODAY, THE. Canadian, Reel. Canada, Cape Breton. E Minor/G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. A variant of the Irish reel "Morning Star (1) (The)."  Source for notated version: learned by fiddler Brenda Stubbert (b. 1959, Point Aconi, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia) as a teenager from Irish-style fiddler John Walker (born in Cape Breton c. 1885) [Cranford].  Printed sources: Cranford (Brenda Stubbert's), 1994; No. 70, p. 25.  Recorded sources:

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