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<abc float="left"> %REPLACE THE NEXT 5 (FIVE) LINES WITH YOUR ABC NOTATION CODE X:1 T: No Score K:G %% simply paste your ABC code here! %% the rest, after the closed tag, is for formatting and copyright issues </abc> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <p> ---- </p> <p><font face="sans-serif" size="4"> '''BIG MULE, THE'''. Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, Kentucky. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BCC'. Jeff Titon (2001) identifies this melody as in the same family of tunes as "Old Dubuque" (that also includes the tunes "[[Duck River]]," "[[Fiddling Phil]]," "[[Five Miles From Town (2)]]," "[[General Lee]]," "[[Phiddlin' Phil]]" and "[[Sally in the Green Corn]].") Tom Verdot believes this family may have been derived from an 1840's minstrel tune called "Coonie in the Holler" Titon says a less closely related tune is Milo Bigger's (Glasgow, Kentucky) "[[Scott's Return]]." "Big Mule" was also in the repertoire of Kentucky fiddler Street Butler, who said his source was a man named Charley Latham. The melody features a 'crooked' or irregularly measured 'B' part. <br> <br> ''Source for notated version'': a field recording by Bruce Greene of the playing of W. L. "Jake" Phelps (Elkton, Todd County, Ky., 1973) [Titon]. <br> <br> ''Printed source:'' Titon ('''Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes'''), 2001; No. 6, p. 37. </font></p> __NORICHEDITOR__
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