Annotation:Harvey (The)
X: 1 T:The Harvey Jig R:jig M:6/8 L:1/8 Z:Transcribed by Bruce Osborne K:D A|ABA F2A|dcd f2a|e2f gfe|cde dcB| ABA F2A|dcd f2a|e2f gec|d3 d2:| |:(3e/f/g/|aba faf|dcB A2G|FDF AGF|E3 E2e| gag efe|dcB A2 (3e/f/g/|aba gfe|d3 d2:||
HARVEY, THE. Canadian, Jig (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Harvey, New Brunswick, was the home village of Canadian radio and TV fiddler Don Messer (1909-1973), born in Tweedside New Brunswick, just outside of Harvey Station. He became a national name in 1939, when Don Messer and His Islanders broadcast three times a week from Charlottetown on CBC Radio. Parts of this tune are equivalent to several Pennsylvania collected untitled quadrilles that appear grouped together in Bayard (1981, Nos. 527-530, pp. 472-474), and the first part of "Rolling Off a Log" (Cole/Ryan's Mammoth).
