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WAITING FOR THE FEDERALS. AKA and see: "Federal Hornpipe," "Get Away from the Federals," "Old Coon Dog," "Running from the Federals," "Seneca Squaredance," "Shelby's Mules." Old Time, Breakdown. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'.

Source for notated version: Bain (50 Fiddle Solos), 1989; p. 22.

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Recorded sources: Compass 7 4403 2, Aly Bain & Phip Cunningham - "Best of Aly & Phil" (2005). Whirly WHR 01, Aly Bain – “First Album” (learned either from fiddler Jay Ungar or singer/songwriter Jim Ringer, Ungar’s source. Ringer would sing or play on the harmonica the melodies of fiddle tunes he had learned when growing up in Arkansas).

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