Annotation:Bow Wow Wow

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BOW WOW WOW. AKA and see "Barking Barber (The)." English, Air (2/4 time). G Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. The song was sung by Mrs. Dyden in the stage production Patrick in Russia. The song with music was printed in Walker's Hibernian Magazine (1786).

The title (as "Bow Wow") appears in Henry Robson's list of popular Northumbrian song and dance tunes, which he published c. 1800. See also Annotation:Gumbo Chaff, an American minstrel song that may have been based on "Bow Wow Wow."

Printed source: Howe (1000 Jigs and Reels), c. 1867; p. 161. Manson (Hamilton's Universal Tune Book, vol. 2), 1846; p. 71.

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