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FLATFOOTED HENRY. AKA - "Flatfooted N....." American, Reel. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. It has become fashionable to add a II chord (D) to the accompaniment of the tune, although not original.
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Source for notated version : - from an amateur tape of Jonathan Bekoff and Kirk Poweel on fiddle and banjo, Galax, 1986 [Songer].
Printed sources : - Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1), 1994; p. 88. Songer (Portland Collection), 1997; p. 79.
Recorded sources : - Rounder 0213, The Tompkins County Horseflies - "Chokers and Flies" (1985. Learned from Fonsee Kennemer, north Georgia, who used another term for 'Henry').
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