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OLD GRAY GOOSE. Old-Time, Breakdown. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. Source Fred Stoneking (son of fiddler Lee Stoneking) said he learned the tune from a tape of a contest fiddler from California. The melody does not appear to resemble other "Old Grey Goose" tunes (of either spelling of gray/grey).

Source for notated version: Fred Stoneking (b. 1933, Chilhowee, Johnson County, Missouri) [Beisswenger & McCann].

Printed sources: Beisswenger & McCann (Ozarks Fiddle Music), 2008; p. 140.

Recorded sources: Rounder CD 0381, Fred Stoneking - "Saddle Old Spike" (1996).




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