Annotation:Jolly Dogs
Tune properties and standard notation
JOLLY DOGS. American, English; Polka A Major (Ford): D Major (Plain Brown). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The polka was composed by C. H. R. Marriott. Ellis Knowles piece is more elaborate that the rather simple version noted by Ford, and includes some introductory bars and and extra part.
Source for notated version: No. 2 in the music manuscript book of Ellis Knowles, a muscian from Lancashire, England, c. 1847 [Doyle].
Printed sources: Ford (Traditional Music in America), 1940; p. 81. Doyle (Plain Brown Tune Book), 1997; p. 9.
Recorded sources: