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FORTY POUNDS OF FEATHERS IN A HORNET'S NEST. AKA and see "Cuckoo's Nest (5) (The)." American, Reel. USA, southwestern Pa. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. A local Pa. title for the well-known "Cuckoo's Nest."

Source for notated version: Clever (elderly fiddler from Jefferson County, Pa., 1948) [Bayard].

Printed sources: Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 292G, p. 247.

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