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WENT TO THE RIVER AND I COULDN'T GET ACROSS. AKA - "Old Aunt Mary Jane," "Ho Babe." Old Time, Breakdown. USA, Oklahoma. A Aeolian. Standard or AEae tunings (fiddle). AABCCD. J.S. Price (Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma; Thede).

Went to the river, I couldn't get across;
I jumped on a bullfrog and thought he was a hoss.


Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Thede (The Fiddle Book), 1967; p. 64

Recorded sources:




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