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HOME SWEET HOME [2]. American, Reel. USA, southwestern Pa. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The tune was apparently arranged in dance form by the source. The original "Home Sweet Home" was from John Howard Payne's play Clari, Or The Maid Of Milan, produced in 1823. A string band arrangement of the tune was recorded by Da Costa Woltz's Southern Broadcasters (Galax, Va.) in 1927.

Source for notated version: Harmon McCullough (Indiana County, Pa., 1959) [Bayard].

Printed sources: Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 367, pp. 359-360.

Recorded sources: County 524, "Da Costa Woltz's Southern Broadcasters."




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