Boss Clog Hornpipe (The)
BOSS CLOG HORNPIPE, THE. AKA and see "Dixon's Slide." American, Hornpipe. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. The tune appears under the title "Dixon's Slide" in Ira Ford's Traditional Music in America (1940). Ford collected primarily in Missouri and the Mid-West, however, specifics on where he obtained this tune are unknown.
Source for notated version: included in a section of tunes in Ryan's Mammoth from the playing of Jimmy Norton, the "Boss Jig Player"-Norton was presumably a band-leader or principal instrumentalist in the eastern Massachusetts area in the mid-1900's.
Printed source: Howe (1000 Jigs and Reels), c. 1867; p. 50.
X:1 T:Boss Clog Hornpipe, The M:C| L:1/8 R:Hornpipe or Clog S:Howe - 1000 Jigs and Reels (c. 1867) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:A e>d | c>eA>c E>AC>E | (3A,CE (3Ace a2 b>a | g>be>g B>eG>B | (3EGB (3egb c'2 e>d | c>eA>c E>AC>E (3A,CE (3Ace a>c' a2 | g>be>g f>a^d>f |1 e2e2e2 :|2 e2e2e2 =d>e || |: f>A,D>F A>df>a | e>A,C>E A>ce>a | g>B,E>G B>de>g | b>ag>f e>cd>e | f>A,D>F A>df>a | e>A,C>E A>ce>a | g>eb>g e>dB>e |1 A2A2A2 d>e :|2 A2A2A2 ||
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