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NIXON'S FAREWELL. American, Reel (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Composed on the occasion of President Nixon's resignation in the mid-1970's by Curtis Bouterse (San Diego, California). Since then the tune has been folk-processed into several versions.

Additional notes

Printed sources : - Songer (Portland Collection), 1997; p. 147.

Recorded sources : - Clyde Curley - "Tunes of the Gods: Old-Time Music for the Mandolin" (1994).

See also listing at :
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]

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