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OLD VIRGINIA REEL [4]. Old-Time, Breakdown. A variant of "Polly Put the Kettle On (2)." The tune was also recorded in the 78 RPM era by Kentucky-based John Walker's Corbin Rattlers, according to John Hartford (who had it from the Stampers).

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Recorded sources: Rounder 0392, John Hartford - "Wild Hog in the Red Brush (and a Bunch of Others You Might Not Have Heard") {1996. Learned from a recording of Amyx Stamper, Harold Stamper's father}.

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