Annotation:Home Sweet Home (2)
X:1 T:Home Sweet Home [2]. Straight Jig M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Reel B:A.S. Bowman – “J.W. Pepper Collection of Five Hundred Reels, Jigs, B:etc.” (Phila., 1908, No. 62, p. 15) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:A A/B/|c/Ac/ df|e/f/e/d/ c/A/c/e/|d/e/d/c/ dB|cE F/G/A/B/| c/Ac/ df|e/f/e/d/ c/A/c/e/|d/e/d/c/ d/E/G/B/|AcA:| |:e|a/ea/ g/a/f/g/ |e/AB/ ce|d/e/d/c/ d/c/d/B/ |c/E/F/G/ A/B/c/e/| a(a/g/) g(g/f/)|e/f/e/d/ c/A/c/e/|d/e/d/c/ d/E/G/B/|AcA:|]
HOME SWEET HOME [2]. American, Reel. USA, southwestern Pa. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The tune may have been arranged in dance form by Bayard's source, however, it is cognate with the French-Canadian "Reel de Tadoussac (1)." It may be that both developed independently from the original air. The original "Home Sweet Home" was from John Howard Payne's play Clari, Or The Maid Of Milan, produced in 1823. A string band arrangement of the tune was recorded by Da Costa Woltz's Southern Broadcasters (Galax, Va.) in 1927.
