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Tune Annotations:	'''DAN BACKUS' FAVORITE'''. AKA and see "[[Going to the Fair]]," "[[Jim Coleman's (1)]]," "[[Liverpool Jack's]]," "[[Miss McGuinness (3)]]," "[[Take your Choice]]," "[[Terence's Ramble]]." American, Reel. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. According to Paul Wells, Backus was a violinist and dance prompter in the Boston area in the latter 19th century <ref>PAUL F. WELLS (2010). "Elias Howe, William Bradbury Ryan, and Irish Music in Nineteenth-Century Boston". '''Journal of the Society for American Music''', 4, p. 415.</ref>. Francis O'Neill printed versions of the tune in his collections under the titles "[[Take your Choice]]" and "[[Going to the Fair]]." "[[Miss McGuiness (3)]]" is a member of this tune family, albeit quite distanced from the primary variants.
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Printed sources:	Cole ('''1000 Fiddle Tunes'''), 1940; p. 30. '''Ryan's Mammoth Collection''', 1883; pp. 32, 46, 56.
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