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| | |f_tune_annotation_title= https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Farmer's_Reel_(1) > |
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| | |f_annotation='''FARMER'S REEL [1]'''. AKA - "The Farmer." AKA and see "[[Boys from Scart (The)]]," "[[Coquette (1)]]," "[[Delaware Hornpipe]]," "[[Ottawa Valley Reel (1) (The)]]." Canadian, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The second strain is cognate with the first three alternate titles, and both strains are cognate with "[[Ottawa Valley Reel (1) (The)]]." See note for "[[annotation:Ottawa Valley Reel (1) (The)|Ottawa Valley Reel]]" for more. |
| |f_tune_name=Nancy Rowland
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| |f_track_title=Nancy_Rowland_(1)
| | |f_printed_sources=Corfield ('''Tunes from New Brunswick'''), 2024; p. 41. Messer ('''Way Down East'''), 1948; No. 14. Messer ('''Anthology of Favorite Fiddle Tunes'''), 1980; p. 55. |
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| |f_played_by=[https://soundcloud.com/doc-merle-watson Doc & Merle Watson]
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| |f_notes= W Carter Family, Monroe Co., Mississippi. Fiddler George Washington Carter (1869-1948) and family, with son James "Jimmy" Auguston Carter (1900-1979) playing guitar [Lynn "Chirps" Smith].
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| |f_caption=Had a little dog, his name was Rover, <br>
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| When he died, he died all over.<br>
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| I had a wife and she was a Quaker,<br>
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| She wouldn't work and I wouldn't make her.<br>
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| I had a wife and she was a weaver,<br>
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| She wouldn't work, so I had to leave her.
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| |f_source=[https://soundcloud.com/doc-merle-watson/nancy-rowland-old-joe-clark Soundcloud]
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| |f_article=[[Nancy_Rowland_(1) | '''Nancy Rowland''']]
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| The tune is mentioned in a passage in Missouri physician William Percival King's Stories of a Country Doctor (1891), in his chapter called "Old Time Dances and Parties." After a community barn-raising...:
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| ''...the young men would repair to the house in the dusk of evening. If the quilt was done it would be taken out of the frames; if not it would be wound up--that is lifted to the ceiling or "loft," and then securely tied overhead. If there was a bed in the "big room" it would be taken down and removed. The fiddlers would get ready while everybody ate a hasty supper. This evening meal was enjoyed most by the old folks, for the younger ones would be so elated with the prospect of what was to come they could not eat. The "fiddlers" (there were no violinists in those days) would take their places i the corner and begin to "tune up." Four young men would seek partners and take their places for a cotillion. Then the fiddlers would strike up a familiar strain and the dancing would begin.''
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| ''And it was dancing.'' | |
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| ''None of your gliding and sliding to and fro, a little hugging here and there, touching the tips of fingers and bowing and scraping. Oh, no. This was dancing. The music was such as "Fishers," "Durangs," "Rickett's," and "The Sailor's" hornpipes, "The Arkansas Traveler," "Cotton Eyed Joe," "Nancy Rowland," "Great big 'taters in sandy land," "Pouring soapsuds over the fence," "The snow bird on the Ash bank," "The Route," "The Rye Straw," "Run, nigger, run," etc. Sometimes one of the fiddlers would act as "prompter," or, if he could not, then some one would be selected. ... [pp. 48-49].'' | |
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X: 1
T:Farmer's Reel [1], The
R:Reel
M:4/4
L:1/8
Z:Transcribed by Bruce Osborne
K:G
d>c|BGBd BGBd|gfge dBGB|ecdB cABG|E2A2 A2dc|
BGBd BGBd|gfge dBGB|ecdB cABG|D2G2 G2:|
|:g2|dgBg dgBg|dgba gfed|ea^ca ea^ca|e2ag fed^c|
dgBg dgBg|dgba gfed|faba gfef|g2g2 g2:|
|:B>c|dBgB dgBg|ecgc egce|dBgB dgBd|AGFE D2Bc|
dBgB dgBd|ecgc egce|dBGB cAFA|G2B2 G2:||
Additional notes
Printed sources : - Corfield (Tunes from New Brunswick), 2024; p. 41. Messer (Way Down East), 1948; No. 14. Messer (Anthology of Favorite Fiddle Tunes), 1980; p. 55.
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