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SWEEPING THE TOWN. AKA and see “Good One (The).” American, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Silberberg): AABB (Johnson): AA'BB (Phillips). Phillips (1994) remarks this is a new name for an old tune (without naming the original). In fact it appears to be a modern breakdown conversion of a British jig called “Queen's Jig (The).” It has similar melodic material to "Goodbye Liza Jane" and Kirk Sutphin’s “Virginia Reel,” and some think it also bears resemblance in the beginning to “Spotted Pony.” Seattle fiddler Armin Barnet is credited with the title from an off-hand remark he made about the tune, something to the effect that “that tune sure has gotten popular all of a sudden. It’s sweeping the town.”

Additional notes
Source for notated version : - fiddler Greg Canote [Phillips]; Warren Argo [Silberberg].

Printed sources : - Johnson (The Kitchen Musician: Occasional Collection of Old Timey Fiddle Tunes for Hammer Dulcimer, Fiddle, etc.), 1982 (revised 1988 & 2003); p. 15. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1), 1994; p. 235. Silberberg (Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern), 2002; p. 154.

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