Annotation:Hell on the Potomac (3)
Tune properties and standard notation
HELL ON THE POTOMAC [3]. AKA and see "Bridge of Lodi (The)," "Huntsman's Hornpipe," "Nelson's Hornpipe (2)," "Murray's Hornpipe." American, March (2/4 time). USA, southwestern Pa. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The tune is a well-known hornpipe in the British Isles converted in America to a march and attracting a floating title. It is elswhere known as "Bridge of Lodi (The)" and "Huntsman's Hornpipe (The)/Hunter's Hornpipe (1)".
Source for notated version: Hiram Horner (fifer from Westmoreland and Fayette Counties, Pa., 1944) [Bayard].
Printed sources: Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 354, p. 353.
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