Annotation:Farewell Mary Ann

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 FAREWELL, MARY ANN. AKA and see "Constitution Hornpipe (3)," "Old Viole." Old-Time, Breakdown. USA; Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Recorded by Herbert Halpert for the Library of Congress, 1939, from the playing of W.A. Bledsoe, Meridian, Mississippi. Bledsoe had the tune from an uncle in Lincoln County, Tennessee, where he grew up before the turn of the century.  Source for notated version: Frank Miller with the Blue Ridge Mountaineers [Phillips].  Printed sources: Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), vol. 1, 1994; p. 83.  Recorded sources: Mississippi Department of Archives and History AH-002, W.A. Bledsoe - "Great Big Yam Potatoes: Anglo-American Fiddle Music from Mississippi" (1985).

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