Annotation:Phoebe Ice

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PHOEBE ICE. AKA and see "Up Jumped Jinny with Her Shirt Tail Torn." American, March (4/4 time). USA, southwestern Pa. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Bayard (1981) thinks the tune an American original. He thinks relatives may perhaps be "Hell Among(st) the Yearlings (1)" and "Sugar in My Coffee(-O)." Bayard collected the following nonsense rhyme with the tune:

Now Phoebe Ice has laid a plan:
For every woman she'll have a man, etc.

Source for notated version: George Strosnider (elderly fiddler from Greene County, Pa., 1930's) [Bayard].

Printed sources: Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 290C, p. 243.

Recorded sources:

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