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PAT 'EM ON THE BACK. Old-Time, Breakdown. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABC. The accompaniment to the 'A' part begins on a V7 chord.

Source for notated version: Owen “Snake” Chapman (1919–2003, Chapman's Holler, Canada, Kentucky) [Phillips].

Owen Chapman

Printed sources: Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1), 1994; p. 181.

Recorded sources: June Appal JA0061, Owen ‘Snake’ Chapman – "Fiddle Ditty" (1990).




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