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WHEELER'S BIRDIE. AKA – “Jimmie Wheeler's Birdie.” Old-Time, Breakdown. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). A version of "Birdie (1)", popular among West Virginia fiddlers. The Bing Brothers learned the tune from Portsmouth, Ohio, fiddler Jimmy Wheeler.

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Recorded sources: Elk River Ramblers - "A Murder of Crows" (2015). Roane Records, The Bing Brothers - "Just for the Sake of It" (2013).




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