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X:1 T:Porter S:Lotus Dickey M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel F:https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/porter Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:C c2-|c2a2g2e2|cAdA c2c2-|c2a2g2e2|dega g>ec2-| c>ea2g2e2|cAdA c2G2-|G2c>GA2B2|c3B c2:| |:A2AB cBAB|cA BA3e2-|e2ef e2e2-|e^def e2| A2AB cBAB|cAcA E2ze-|e^de^d e=dc2|A3^GA4:||

PORTER. American, Reel (cut time). C Major (1st part) & A Minor (2nd part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was in the repertoire of Grease Gravy Hill (Paoli), Indiana, fiddler Lotus Dickey (1911-1989), who said he had learned it as a boy around 1926 from a local Orange County, Indiana, fiddler named Poindexter "Deck" Ainsworth, who was originally from the Arkansas Ozarks Mountains. Ainsworth himself had learned the tune, sans title, from a man named Porter, and so just called it "Porter".

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Source for notated version: -

Printed sources : -

Recorded sources: - Vigortone VT-1911, Lotus Dickey - "Down the Pike and other Fiddle Tunes from Orange County, Indiana" (2013).

See also listing at:
Hear Lotus Dickey's recording at Slippery Hill [1], at Dr. Dosido's site [2], and at youtube.com [3].
Read Dillon Bustin's article on Lotus Dickey, "The Virtues of Lotus Dickey: Sitting at the Feet of Lotus", Country Dance and Song vol. 20, March 1990, pp. 7-13 [4]

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