Annotation:Kate and Davy

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KATE AND DAVY. AKA "Cate & David." American, March or Contra Dance Tune (whole time). E Minor (Woburn): D Minor (Howe). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The march, as "Cate & David," is contained in the Woburn Fife Manuscript, a ms. collection inscribed with the the name Seth Johnson and "Woburn. April 20th day, 1807. I Bought this Book, 5:3." Entries were made between 1807 and as late as 1840. It was printed in Boston in 1867 as a tune in Elias Howe's 1000 Jigs and Reels as "Kate and Davy."

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Printed sources : - Howe (1000 Jigs and Reels), c. 1867; p.

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