Annotation:I Just Don't Want to Be Rich
Tune properties and standard notation
I JUST DON’T WANT TO BE RICH. Canadian, Jig or Air. Canada, Prince Edward Island. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA’BB. The tune was once a popular song that begins:
You ask me why I’m a hobo,
And why I sleep in a ditch;
Its not because I’m lazy, boys,
I just don’t want to be rich.
Source for notated version: Connie Gallant (b. 1920's, North-East Kings County, Prince Edward Island) [Perlman].
Printed sources: Perlman (The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island), 1996; p. 129.
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