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FOUR JACKS, THE. American, Canadian; March Two-Step (4/4 time). D Major ('A', 'B' parts) & G Major ('C' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABC. Composed and published in 1907 by Abe Losch, one of the many pseudonyms employed American composer Harry J. Lincoln (1878-1931), of Pennsylvania. A version of this tune was in the repertoire of Cape Breton fiddler Lee Cremo.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Messer (Anthology of Favorite Fiddle Tunes), 1980; No. 184, pp. 126-127.

Recorded sources: Cremo Productions LCD9501, Lee Cremo - "The Champion Returns" (1995).




Tune properties and standard notation