Annotation:Honeycomb Rock (The)

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HONEYCOMB ROCK, THE. AKA and see "McClellantown Hornpipe." Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, Pennsylvania. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Bayard says this tune is a form of a British dance tune called "Push about the Jorum (1)," AKA "Rowan Tree (1) (The)," "Lads and Lasses (2)," and "Rattle the Bottles." The Pennsylvania-collected tune takes its name from some form of the associated rhyme:

I went to see the widda', and the widda' wasn't home;
I went to see her daughter, and she gave me honeycomb.

(Bayard, 1944).

Source for notated version: Irvin Yaugher Jr., Mt. Independence, Pennsylvania, October 19, 1943 (learned from his great-uncle) [Bayard].

Printed sources: Bayard (Hill Country Tunes), 1944; No. 11A.

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