Annotation:Shag Poke

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X:1 T:Shag Poke S:Dwight Lamb (b. 1934, Moorehead, Iowa) L:1/8 M:C| D:Rounder 0429, Dwight Lamb - "Joseph Won a Coated Fiddle" F:https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/shag-poke Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:G (3DEF|G2G2 GBAG|E[A3A3] [A4A4]|C2AA B,2AA|A,2 AB AGEF| G2G2 GBAG|E[A3A3] [A4A4]|ABcd efge|dBAF [G2B2]:| ef|g2 ba g2ag|edef gedg|edef gage|dBAF G2ef| g2 ba g2ag|edef (g/f/e) df|edef gage|dBAF G2||

SHAG POKE. American, Reel (cut time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Shag Poke and Shy-poke are names for a Great Blue Heron in Missouri and elsewhere in the MidWest. The term may have derived from the bird's penchant for defecating while flying (shite poke or shit-a-cord are also names associated with it), which is also sometimes called a Blue Crane. The tune is sourced to the playing of Onawa, Iowa (near the Nebraska border), fiddler biography:Dwight Lamb (b. 1934, Moorehead, Iowa).

Additional notes

Source for notated version: - Pat Conte [Phillips].

Printed sources : - Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 2), 1995; p. 127.

Recorded sources: - Rounder 0426, Dwight Lamb - "Joseph Won a Coated Fiddle" (1999). Rachel Eddy - "Hand on the Plow" (2008). New Bad Habits (Chirps Smith, Tim Foss & Andy Gribble) - "Shades of Death Creek" (2013).

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See other standard notation transcriptions at Taterjoes.com [1]

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