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X:1 T:Lady on the Railroad M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Reel S:Howe - 1000 Jigs and Reels (c. 1867) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:D A/G/ |: F(A/F/) D/F/A/F/ | G(B/G/) d/G/B/G/ | F(A/F/) D/F/A/d/ | B/G/F/G/ ED | F(A/F/) D/F/A/F/ | G(B/G/) d/G/B/G/ | FG/F/ D/F/A/d/ | B/G/F/G/ ED :| |: A/c/d/e/ f(f/a/) | g/e/f/d/ e/d/B/d/ | A/c/d/e/ f/d/f/g/ | b/f/d/f/ e2 | A/c/d/e/ f(f/a/) | g/e/f/d/ e/d/B/d/ | A/c/d/e/ f/e/f/g/ | a/f/d/f/ ed :|



LADY ON THE RAILROAD. AKA and see "Rolling on the Ryegrass," "Ladies Tight Dress (The)," "Ladies Top Dress (The)," "Brown Red Girl (The)," "Love Among the Roses," "Kilfinane Reel (The)," "Listowel Lasses (1) (The)," "Boil the Kettle Early (1)," "Kitty Got a Clinking (1)," "Kitty Got a Clinking Coming from the Races (1)," "Punch for the Ladies (2)," "Telegraph (The)," "Old Molly Ahern," "Maureen Playboy," "Piper's Lass (The)," "Rathkeale Hunt (The)," "Shannon Breeze (1) (The)," "What the Devil Ails You (2)." Irish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB.


Additional notes
Source for notated version : - "As played by Jimmy Norton, the Boss Jig Player," states Boston publisher Elias Howe. Norton was presumably a band-leader or principal instrumentalist in the Boston, Massachusetts, area in the mid-19th century. Howe collected from a variety of sources, including regional musicians. Paul Wells says "Norton is easily traced in directories from the early 1860's to the early 1890's. Often his business address was the same as Howe's" [1].

Printed sources : - Howe (1000 Jigs and Reels), c. 1867; p. 49. Howe (Musician's Omnibus No. 6), Boston, c. 1880-1882; p. 418.






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  1. PAUL F. WELLS (2010). Elias Howe, William Bradbury Ryan, and Irish Music in Nineteenth-Century Boston. Journal of the Society for American Music, 4, p. 417.
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