Annotation:Sam King's Tune
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SAM KING'S TUNE. AKA - "Sam Pipe's Funeral March]." American, March (4/4 time). USA, southwestern Pa. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The title and alternate given are local Pennsylvania titles for the tune, commonly a marching piece for fife and drums, though known to fiddlers. Bayard (1981) concludes the ancestry of the piece to be either a mixture of two well known British Isles tunes, or else an indication that those two airs were cognate. He identifies the melodies as the Scots "Logan Water" and an Irish hornpipe frequently called "tSeanbhean bhocht (An)" (Poor Old Woman (1)). Two of Bayard's versions were used as funeral dirges when played solemnly.