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NEW JERSEY. American, County Dance Tune or Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). The melody appears in John Carr's American publication First Book of Cotillions (1801) as well as numerous other country dance and tune publications and musicians' manuscript collections of the first years of the 19th century.

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Recorded sources: Maggie's Music MMCD216, Hesperus - "Early American Roots" (1997).

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