Annotation:In the Sweet Bye and Bye

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IN THE SWEET BYE AND BYE. American, Air and March (2/4 time) and Song Tune. USA, southwestern Pa. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. A once-popular song with words and music written by Joseph P. Webster, who composed various Civil War pieces. It was collected by Samuel Bayard from a southwest Pennsylvania fifer, who employed it as a march.

Source for notated version: Lloyd (Pa., 1952) [Bayard].

Printed sources: Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 270, pp. 227-228.

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