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HONEYMOON (POLKA), THE. AKA and see "Honeymoon Hornpipe." Canadian, Polka. Canada, Prince Edward Island. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB. The melody was first recorded in Montreal in 1935 by fiddler Hugh A. MacDonald [1] (1889-1976), of Antigonish, Nova Scotia. According to his granddaughter, fiddler Kendra MacGillivray, it is believed that a man from Westville, Nova Scotia, wrote many of the polkas that Hugh A. used to play.
Source for notated version: Sterling Baker (b. mid-1940's, Morell, North-East Kings County, Prince Edward Island; now resident of Montague) [Perlman].
Printed sources: Perlman (The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island), 1996; p. 164.
Recorded sources:
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