Annotation:Jackson's Breakdown
Tune properties and standard notation
JACKSON'S BREAKDOWN. AKA and see "Richmond Cotillion," "Plaza Polka," "Sally There's a Bug On Me," "Sally Put a Bug on Me," "Old Richmond," "Hanging Around the Kitchen (Till the Cook Comes Home)," "Wait in the Kitchen (Till the Cook Comes In)," "Run Them Coons in the Ground." American, Schottische or Polka (2/4 time). D Major ('A' part) & A Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A polka or schottische-type tune in a quadrille setting (in the American sense of the term, meaning that each strain is in a different key).
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Sannella, Balance and Swing (CDSS). Sweet (Fifer's Delight), 1964/1981; p. 76.
Recorded sources: