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ST. JOE HORNPIPE. American, Reel (cut time). USA; Nebraska, Missouri. B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. “The St. Joe Hornpipe” is one of the ‘100 essential Missouri fiddle tunes’ according to Missouri fiddler Charlie Walden, popularized by Missouri Valley fiddlers such as Bob Walters and Cyril Stinnett. The first part of “St. Joe Hornpipe” is the similar to the second part of the English polka “Girl with the Blue Dress On (1) (The).” See also the related "Indian Hornpipe" and the Canadian "Logger's Breakdown"^[1].

Additional notes
Source for notated version : - Bob Walters (Burt County, Nebraska) [Christeson, Phillips].

Printed sources : - R.P. Christeson (Old Time Fiddlers Repertory, vol. 1), 1973; p. 35. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 2), 1995; p. 222.

Recorded sources : - Field Recorders Collective FRC729, H.K. Silvey - "Fiddling from Ozark County, MO" (2020). MSOTFA 103, Cyril Stinnett - "Gray Eagle in C" (1992). Missouri Valley Music, "The Cyril Stinnett Sessions: Home Videos from the Dwight Lamb Collection" (DVD format).

See also listing at :
Hear Cyril Stinnett's recording at Bandcamp [1]
Hear a 1949 radio broadcast clip of Nebraska fiddler Bob Walters playing the tune at Slippery Hill [2]
See banjo tab [3]
See Charlie Walden's standard notation transcription [4]

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↑ The second strain of "St. Joe Hornpipe" is cognate with the first strain of "Logger's Breakdown".

[1] The second strain of "St. Joe Hornpipe" is cognate with the first strain of "Logger's Breakdown".

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