Annotation:Getting George Bush Upstairs
Tune properties and standard notation
GETTING GEORGE BUSH UPSTAIRS. Old-time, Breakdown. A Major. AEae tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. The tune and title (of which there are several variations) long predate the American Presidents of that name. The source for most versions is Kentucky fiddler Perry Riley, a cousin to another famous Kentucky fiddler, Buddy Thomas.
Source for notated version: Perry Riley, (Ky., recorded 1973) [Milliner & Koken].
Printed sources: Milliner & Koken (Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes), 2011; p. 235.
Recorded sources: Rounder Select CD 0376, Perry Riley - "Traditional Fiddle Music of Kentucky, Vol. 1: Up the Ohio and Licking Rivers" (1997).