Annotation:Honeymoon Hornpipe

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HONEYMOON (HORNPIPE). Canadian, Polka. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Not "The Honeymoon" in Raven, Kennedy, Cole, Ryan. The melody plays like a polka or two-step rather than the traditional hornpipe, and, in fact, it was collected on Prince Edward Island as "Honeymoon Polka (The)."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Messer (Way Down East), 1948; No. 66. Messer (Anthology of Favorite Fiddle Tunes), 1980; No. 112, p. 71.

Recorded sources:

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