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Theme code Index
3331 3133
Also known as
Pretty Polly Ann?
Composer/Core Source
Region
United States
Genre/Style
Old-Time
Meter/Rhythm
Reel (single/double)
Key/Tonic of
A
Accidental
3 sharps
Mode
Ionian (Major)
Time signature
2/2
History
Structure
AABB
Editor/Compiler
Book/Manuscript title
Tune and/or Page number
Year of publication/Date of MS
Artist
Biography:McGee Brothers and Arthur Smith
Title of recording
Record label/Catalogue nr.
Folkways FW02379_210
Year recorded
1964
Media
Score ( )
X:1
T:Polly Ann
M:C|
L:1/8
Q:"Fast"
N:AEac# tuning (fiddle)
S:Arthur Smith (1898-1971, Humphreys County, east Tennessee)
D:Smithsonian Folkways CD FW02379, "Look! Who's Here:
D:Old Timers of the Grand Ole Opry" (1964. Recorded in 1957.)
F:https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/polly-ann
Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz
K:A
{B}[c2c2][c2c2][cc]BA2|[cc]BA2 [c3c3]B |cBAc BAFE|FA2B A2[B2c2]-|
[c2c2][cc]d cBAB|[cc]BAB [c4c4]|[c2c2]Ac Bc[E2A2]|FA2B A2[B2c2]-|
[c2c2][c2c2]- [cc]BAB|[cc]BAB [c3c3](B|cBcB c2)E2|FA2B A3(A/B/|
A[c3c3]) [cc]BAB| [cc]BAB [c4c4]|[c2c2]Ac Bc[E2A2]|FA2B A4||
|:A,CEF A2 Ac|BAFA FFAF|EDEG A2A2|BAFD E3C|
A,CEF AGAc|BABA {B}[c3c3]d|ecAc Bc E2|FA2B A4:|]