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OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY [3]. AKA and see "Green Grow the Rushes O." American, March. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The title in this case is a floating title in southwestern Pennsylvania fife tradition for the Scottish melody "Green Grow the Rushes O."

Source for notated version: five southwestern Pa. fifers [Bayard]. Aird (1782-1785).

Printed sources: Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 206H-M, pp. 160-162.

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