Annotation:Tune the Old Cow Died Of (The)
X:1 T:Tune the Old Cow Died of, The M:4/4 L:1/8 R:Air and dance tune B:Bayard - Dance to the Fiddle, March to the Fife (1981, No. 95) S:S. Hall (southwest Pa., 1930's) K:D (3ABc|d2 f>e d2 {e}f>e|d2 (3dcB A2 AB/c/|d2f2d2f2|a6 f2|g2b2 e3e| f2 af d3d|e2d2c2B2|A6 AB/c/|d2 {e}f>e d2f2{e}|d2 {c}(3BcB A2 AB/c/|d2f2d2f2| a6f2|g2b2e3e|f>f a>f|d2d2|e2g2f2e2|d6 (3ABc|d>dd>d d2f2|ddcB A2 AB/c/| d2d2 d>ef>g|a6f2|g>ab>g e2 g>e|f>ga>f d2 A^G/A/|e2g2f2e2|d6||
TUNE THE OLD COW DIED OF, THE. AKA and see "Nutting Girl (The)." American, Air and Dance Tune (4/4 time). USA; northern W.Va., southwestern Pa. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. Bayard (1981) states that a comic song to this tune was popular in the southern Pa./northern W.Va. region about a cow so entranced by a farmer's song that she danced herself to death. The title became for a time a phrase characterizing any extremely bad piece of music.
