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Theme code Index
531H3 5464
Also known as
Walk Chalk Chicken with a Necktie On
Composer/Core Source
Melvin Wine
Region
United States
Genre/Style
Old-Time
Meter/Rhythm
Reel (single/double)
Key/Tonic of
A
Accidental
3 sharps
Mode
Ionian (Major)
Time signature
2/2
History
USA(Upland South)
Structure
AABB
Editor/Compiler
Book/Manuscript title
Tune and/or Page number
Year of publication/Date of MS
Artist
Melvin Wine
Title of recording
Cold Frosty Morning
Record label/Catalogue nr.
Poplar LPI 40290
Year recorded
1976
Media
Score
X:1
T:Walk Chalk Chicken
N:From the playing of Melvin Wine (1909-2003, Braxton County, central West Virginia)
M:C|
L:1/8
R:Reel
N:AEae tuning (fiddle)
D:Poplar LPI 40290, Melvin Wine - "Cold Frosty Morning" (1975)
D:https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/walk-chalk-chicken
Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz
K:A
[ce]-[de]-||S[e2e2]ce a2c2|e2de f2d2|e2ce a2 ea|fefg a2(3efg|
agaf eafe|cee[ce][B2e2]c2|E2A2 ABcA|[M:3/2]BAFG A2 (3ABc A2 :|
|:E2-|EAAA ABcA|cBAA FGAF|E2AB cBAc|e2[c2e2-[c2e2][ce]-[de]-|
[e2e2]a2 e2 (3afe|ceec B2c2|E2A2 ABcA|[M:3/2]BAFG A2 cB A2afS||
