Annotation:Daddy Shot a Bear
Tune properties and standard notation
DADDY SHOT A BEAR. AKA and see "Jaybird," "The Pennsylvania Fifers." Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, southwestern Pa. E Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. A version of the tune known as "Jaybird" in America, child of the older tune known in the British Isles as "The (Bonny) Breast Knot(s)" or "The Lady's Breast Knot."
Source for notated version: Hiram White (elderly fidderl from Greene County, Pa., 1930's) [Bayard].
Printed sources: Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 176, p. 130.
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