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 Theme code Index    5H3H4H2H 3H1H1H3H
 Also known as    Buffalo Nickel (1), Cat Ate the Handsaw, Chinky Pin, Crooked Stovepipe (2), Darling Child, Farmer Had a Dog (The), Fourth of July, Hair in the Butter, I'm My Momma's Darling, I am My Momma's Darling Child, Lead Out, Liesel, Love Somebody (2), Midnight Serenade (1), My Love is But a Lassie Yet (1), My Love She's But a Lassie Yet (1), Old Mose, Raymondville, Richmond Blues, Soapsuds Over the Fence (3), Sweet Sixteen, Ten Nights in a Bar Room, Yellow Eyed Cat
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 Region    United States
 Genre/Style    Old-Time
 Meter/Rhythm    Reel (single/double)
 Key/Tonic of    D
 Accidental    2 sharps
 Mode    Ionian (Major)
 Time signature    2/4
 History    USA(Central)
 Structure    AABB
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X:1
T:Eber Atkin's Tune
M:2/4
L:1/16
Q:120
S:Cyril Stinnett
R:reel
A:Missouri
N:This tune has appeared under more names than any other I know. For fun
N:rather than scholarship, a list follows:   Lead Out, Tommy Jackson;
N:Ten Nights in a Barroom, Lyman Enloe; Liesel, Taylor McBaine; Too Young to
N:Marry, Tommy Jarrell; Soap Suds Over the Fence, Everett McGraw.
H:This is a Scots tune which traces back to "My Love is But a Lassie
H:Yet"
H:- see Kerr's Caledonian Collection
Z:B. Shull, trans.; R.P. LaVaque, ABCs
K:D
f(g|a2)fa (gf)eg|f2 d2 d2f(g|a2)fa (gf)ga|b2 e2 e2f(g|!
a2)fa (gf)eg|f2 d2 g3(f|gf)ed (cd)(eg)|f2 d2 d2:|!
(3(ABc|d2)AG FGA(d|BA)Bc d2 A(c|d2)AG (FG)A(F|[EA][DA])[EA][FA][E2A2](Ac)|!
d2AG|(FG)A(d|BA)Bc df(ef)|(gf)ed (cd)(eg)|f2 d2 d2:|!


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