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HUNNELL'S DOUBLE DRAG. AKA and see "Oho Oho I've Found You Out" (Pa.), "Asey's Piece" (Pa.), "Mason's Quickstep," "Ellis's Jig." American, March (6/8 time). USA, southwestern Pa. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Bayard (1981) states this was one of the best-known tunes to southwestern Pa. and northern W.Va. fifers. He traces the tune to the Northumberland, England, small-pipes tradition to a tune named "O I Hae Seen the Roses Blaw" (Stokoe, p. 84).

Source for notated version: Hoge MS, a fife manuscript from southwestern Pa. [Bayard].

Printed sources: Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 610C, pp. 540-541.

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