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FOUR HUNDERD YEARS OLD. American, Jig. USA, southwestern Pa. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Bayard (1981) asserts that the tune is similar to both "Kenmuir's Up and Awa" and "Up and Waur Them A' Willie," Scottish tunes popular in the 18th and early 19th centuries.

Source for notated version: Henry Yeager (fiddler from Centre County, Pa., 1930's) [Bayard].

Printed sources: Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 494, p. 456.

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