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COUNTRY BUMPKIN. AKA - "Country Bumkin." AKA and see "Bab at the Bowster," "Babbity Bowster," "Old Country Bumpkin (The)," "Who Learned You to Dance and a Towdle." Scottish, Country Dance Tune (6/4 or 6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part (Walsh): AA'BB'CC'. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest printing of the tune in Neil Stewart's 1761 A Collection of the Newest and Best Reels or Country Dances (p. 71), although John Walsh's publication (c. 1745) predates it. There are similarities to "Elsie Marley."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Walsh (Caledonian Country Dances), c. 1745; p. 85.

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-'''COUNTRY BUMPKIN'''. AKA - "Country Bumkin." AKA and see "[[Bab at the Bowster]]," "[[Babbity Bowster]]," "[[Old Country Bumpkin (The)]]." Scottish, Country Dance Tune (6/4 or 6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part (Walsh): AA'BB'CC'. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest printing of the tune in Neil Stewart's 1761 '''A Collection of the Newest and Best Reels or Country Dances''' (p. 71), although John Walsh's publication (c. 1745) predates it.  There are similarities to "[[Elsie Marley]]."
+'''COUNTRY BUMPKIN'''. AKA - "Country Bumkin." AKA and see "[[Bab at the Bowster]]," "[[Babbity Bowster]]," "[[Old Country Bumpkin (The)]]," "[[Who Learned You to Dance and a Towdle]]." Scottish, Country Dance Tune (6/4 or 6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part (Walsh): AA'BB'CC'. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest printing of the tune in Neil Stewart's 1761 '''A Collection of the Newest and Best Reels or Country Dances''' (p. 71), although John Walsh's publication (c. 1745) predates it.  There are similarities to "[[Elsie Marley]]."
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