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GOOD AX ELVE. AKA and see "Cuckoo's Nest (14)," "Cuckoo Hornpipe (The)," "Yellow Heifer (1) (The)," "Captain Moss," "Mountain Top (3) (The)]," "Come Ashore Jolly Tar with Your Trousers On," "Jacky Tar." American, Breakdown. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. An American title for the tune common throughout Britain and Ireland known as "The Cuckoo's Nest" and variants.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Ford (Traditional Music in America), 1940; p. 73.
Recorded sources: Rebel Records, Brad Leftwich & Linda Higginbotham - "Say Old Man" (1996).