Annotation:Green Cockade (1) (The)
Tune properties and standard notation
GREEN COCKADE [1], THE. AKA and see "Biddy the Darling," "Sadler's Balloon." Irish, American; Jig or March (6/8 time). USA, New England, southwestern Pa. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A poorer Pennsylvania version of this fife tune is "Rolling Off a Log (2)," notes Samuel Bayard.
Source for notated version: Hiram Horner (fifer from Westmoreland and Fayette Counties, Pa., 1962) [Bayard].
Printed sources: Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 467, p. 444. Company of Fifers and Drummers, 76, 1974; p. 24. Sweet (Fifer's Delight), 1964/1981; p. 22.
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