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'''MUTT AND JEFF.''' Old-Time, Breakdown. D Major ('A' part) & A Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Mutt and Jeff was a cartoon from the early days of film, dating to 1916, and the longest running theatrical animated short series of the silent era, lasting until 1926. It featured two miss-matched characters, one tall and lanky and the other shorter and spunky, from which the phrase "mutt and jeff" was coined to denote miss-matched pairs. 
[[File:muttjeff.jpg|200px|thumb|left|]]  The title for the tune was perhaps inspired by the fact that each strain is in a different key. While this combination is fairly common in many traditions, particularly for quadrilles, it is not common in the Appalachian  South. 
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[[File:chapman.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Owen Chapman]]
''Source for notated version'': Owen 'Snake' Chapman (1919-2003, Canada, Pike County, Ky.) [Phillips]. 
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''Printed sources'': Phillips ('''Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1'''), 1994; p. 160. 
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''Recorded sources'': <font color=teal>June Appal JA0061, Owen "Snake Chapman - "Fiddle Ditty." </font>
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