Annotation:Old Blind Sow She Stole the Middlins

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X:1 T:Old Blind Sow, She Stole Stole the Middlins S:John W. "Dick" Summers (1887-1976, Marion, Indiana) M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel N:Play AABCDCD N:From a 1972 field recording by Armin Barnett D: F:https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/old-blind-sow-she-stole-middlins Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:G ef|gage dged|BAGB dBGB|AFDF AcBA|GBGB d2ef| gage dged|BAGB dBGB|AFAF AcBA |G2G4 ef| g2g2 dged|BAGB dBGB|AFAF AcBA|GBGB d2g2-| gage dged| |BAGB dBGB|AFAF AcBA |G2G4|| GE|D2 B,2 DEGA| BGBc dBGB|AFAF AcBA|GAGE DB,G,B,| DB,G,B, DEGA|BGBc dBGB|AFAF AcBA |G2G4(GE| D2)B,2 DEGA|BGBc dBGB|A2A2 AFAc|BAGE DB,G,B,| DB,G,B, GDGA|BGBc dBGB|AFDF AcBA|G2 G4||

OLD BLIND SOW, SHE STOLE THE MIDDLINS. AKA and see "Paddy O'Meaghan's Reel." Old-Time, Breakdown. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB. Some similarities with the British Isles tunes "Navvie on the Line" and "London Hornpipe (1)." See also "Montreal Hornpipe."

Additional notes

Source for notated version: - John Summers (Indiana) [Phillips].

Printed sources : - Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1), 1994; p. 168.

Recorded sources: -Rounder 0194, John W. Summers - "Indiana Fiddler" (1984).

See also listing at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]
Hear the tune played on youtube.com [2] [3]
See Mark Wardenburg's standard notation transcription [4]

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