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X:1 T:Shoehammer T:Paddy got Drunk on Fish and Potatoes M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Jig B:Bayard – Dance to the Fiddle, March to the Fife (1981, No. 531B) K:G DGB DGB|GBg edB|DGB DGB|DGB AGE| DGB DGB|Gbe e2|gfg edB|ABA G2:| |:e/f/|gfg edB|eaa a2 e/f/|gfg edB|ABA G2:|]



SHOEHAMMER. AKA and see "Paddy got Drunk on Fish and Potatoes," Big Fat Gal's Good I Know but a Little Fat Gal's Better O." American, Jig (6/8 time). USA, southwestern Pa. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Bayard notes that R.P. Christeson’s untitled quadrille No. 188 (Old Time Fiddler’s Repertory, vol. 1, 1973) resembles this set in general, but most markedly in the second part of the tune.

Additional notes

Source for notated version: - Wellington Funk (fiddler from Greene County, Pa., 1930's) [Bayard].

Printed sources : - Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 531B, p. 474.

Recorded sources: -



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