Annotation:Mrs. Hogan’s Goose

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 MRS. HOGAN'S GOOSE. American, Jig. B Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Composition credited to J. Hand in Ryan’s Mammoth Collection (1883). Little is known about fiddlers James and Johnny Hand, to whom a number of tunes in Ryan’s Mammoth Collection are attributed, although they were probably brothers (perhaps father and son) on the variety stage circuit in New England.  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 63. Ryan’s Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 94.  Recorded sources:

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