Annotation:Keep Off the Grass

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KEEP OFF THE GRASS. American, Reel. USA, southwestern Pa. C Major ('A' part) & A Minor ('B' part) {Bayard-Tustin}: G Major ('A' part) & E Minor ('B' part) {Bayard-Shape}. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Bayard (1981) believes this tune has a "general, yet noticeable" resemblance to the Scottish "Balquhidder Lasses" (which in turn has a resemblance to "Johnny Cope (1)").

Additional notes

Source for notated version: - John Tustin (Greene County, Pa., 1944) and William Shape (Greene County, Pa., 1944) [Bayard].

Printed sources : - Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 186, p. 143.

Recorded sources: -

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