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GEORGIA HORSESHOE. American, Reel (cut time). A Major/Mixolydian. AEae tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDD. "Georgia Horseshoe" was in the repertoire of North Carolina fiddler Bill Hensley (1873-1960), and also of his musical rival Osey Helton, who had the tune from Junalaska, a local Native-American fiddler.

Fiddlin' Bill Hensley, 1937. Photograph by Ben Shahn, 1898-1969.

Hensley also attributed the tune to Junalaska, whom he described as an "Indian chieftain during the Civil War. Bill saw the Indian when he was a small boy, and told me that his white hair hung almost to the ground"^[1]. Hensley also recalled that "Snowbird on the Ashbank (4)" was also a tune that Junalaska played.

Additional notes
Source for notated version : - Bill Hensley (Canton, North Carolina) [Milliner & Koken].

Printed sources : - Milliner & Koken (Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes), 2011; p. 231.

See also listing at :
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]
Hear Bill Hensley's version at Slippery Hill [2]

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↑ See David Parker Bennett's 1940 dissertation "A Study in Fiddle Tunes from Western North Carolina", UNC, Chapel Hill, p. 22 [3]

[1] See David Parker Bennett's 1940 dissertation "A Study in Fiddle Tunes from Western North Carolina", UNC, Chapel Hill, p. 22 [3]

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