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 Theme code Index    1H1H1H1H 2H555
 Also known as    Good Ax Elve, All Aboard, Forty Pounds of Feathers in a Hornet's Nest
 Composer/Core Source    
 Region    United States
 Genre/Style    Old-Time
 Meter/Rhythm    Hornpipe/Clog, Reel (single/double)
 Key/Tonic of    A
 Accidental    2 sharps
 Mode    Mixolydian
 Time signature    4/4
 History    USA(Mid Atlantic)
 Structure    AB
 Editor/Compiler    Biography:Samuel Bayard
 Book/Manuscript title    Book:Hill Country Tunes
 Tune and/or Page number    No. 8a
 Year of publication/Date of MS    1944
 Artist    Ed Haley
 Title of recording    Parkersburg Landing
 Record label/Catalogue nr.    Rounder 1010
 Year recorded    1976
 Media    
 Score   ()   


CUCKOO'S NEST [5], THE. AKA and see "Good Ax Elve," "All Aboard," "Forty Pounds of Feathers in a Hornet's Nest." Old-Time, Reel. USA; southwestern Pa., West Virginia, northeastern Kentucky. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Bayard (1944) identifies these Pennsylvania collected versions as derived from the Irish original, some more true to the original than others, and notes that it enjoyed great popularity in southwestern Pa. His (A) version (from Emery Martin) represented the prevailing one in that region and he found published sets which indicated that this version was also known elsewhere. He gave a children's game rhyme collected in western Pennsylvania that ran:

Wire, briar, limberlock,
Three geese in a flock,
One flew east, and one flew west,
And one flew over the cuckoo's nest.

But said there was no proof that the rhyme was associated locally with this melody. The Pennsylvania versions differ from most Irish versions in that the latter often have three parts, of which parts two and three correspond to parts one and two in the Martin (western Pennsylvania) version. Bayard (1944) says "it has survived in this country where the first part as given in Irish sets does not occur, and is sometimes given the position of first part in the western Pennsylvania sets--as in our version B." Further differences are the American sets are more strongly mixolydian in character than many Irish ones, and while the Irish tune was sometimes used as a song air the American versions were not and it remained a dance tune there. Another version is in The American Veteran Fifer, No. 8. Guthrie Meade and Mark Wilson (1976) observe that northeastern Kentucky fiddler Ed Hayley's version of the tune is similar to the one printed in Bayard's Hill Country Tunes and speculate that, since Bayard's version was collected in the Dunbar region of West Virginia, Hayley (who was born in Logan County, W.Va., and travelled throughout the state) may have learned his version there also.

Sources for notated versions: Emery Martin, Dunbar, Pennsylvania, October 14, 1943 (learned from his father) [Bayard, 1944]: 10 southwestern Pa. fiddlers and fifers [Bayard, 1981].

Bayard (Hill Country Tunes), 1944; No. 8a. Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 292A-J, pgs. 245-248.

Recorded sources: Rounder 1010, Ed Haley - "Parkersburg Landing" (1976). Rounder 1133, Ed Haley vol 2 - "Grey Eagle".


X:1
T:The Cuckoo's Nest [5]
M:4/4
L:1/8
R:Reel or Hornpipe
S:Emery Martin (Dunbar, Pa.), 1943
B:Samuel Bayard - Hill Country Tunes, 8a  (1944)
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:Amix
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(e2|e2)ccc AAcA|AcBA G2B2|[DB]dBA [DB]dBA|
[DB]dBA G2B2|ABcd e2 fg|agaf d2 gf|edBA GABd|c2A2A2||


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