Annotation:Poor Little Mary Sitting in the Corner

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POOR LITTLE MARY, SITTING IN THE CORNER. Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, Mississippi. A Major. AEae tuning (fiddle). AA'B. Tom Rankin (1985) could find no recorded or printed versions of this tune, which sounded to him like a children's gane song "with its narrow melodic framework in the coarse phrase." Enos Canoy, the source, learned the tune from his uncles, Love Kennedy and Robert Runnels of Simpson County, Mississippi.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Bolick (Mississippi Fiddle Tunes), 2015; p. 245.

Recorded sources: Mississippi Department of Archives and History AH-002, Enos Canoy and the Canoy Band - "Great Big Yam Potatoes: Anglo-American Fiddle Music from Mississippi" (1985. Originally recorded for the Library of Congress in 1939).

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