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MABEL. AKA and see "Dubuque." Old-Time, Breakdown. The tune has a variety of titles in American tradition, of which perhaps "Dubuque" is the best known, but also includes "Duck River," "Fiddling Phil/Phiddlin' Phil," "Five Miles Out of Town," "General Lee," "Muddy Road to Kansas," "Old Dubuque," and "Sally in the Green Corn." The "Off to California" tune family is a related group of tunes. These words are associated with the melody:

Glory to the Meetinghouse and glory to the stable,
Glory to the little girl that they call Mable.
Love it is a an awful thing and beauty is a blossum,
If you want your finger bit just poke it at a 'possum.

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Recorded sources: Rounder CD0262, Mike Seeger - "Fresh Oldtime String Band Music" (1988. Learned from a 1939 recording by Elmo Newcomer, Pipe Creek, Texas, recorded by John and Rudy Lomax for the Library of Congress).

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