Billy the Kid's

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Composer/Core Source
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Genre/Style
Meter/Rhythm
Key/Tonic of	A
Accidental	3 sharps
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	2/4
History
Structure
Editor/Compiler	Biography:William Bradbury Ryan
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Ryan's Mammoth Collection
Tune and/or Page number	p. 113
Year of publication/Date of MS	1883
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BILLY THE KID'S. American, Dance Tune. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune is listed in Cole and Kerr as a 'jig' or 'sand jig'--not the Irish jig, but a type of mid-19th century banjo song to which a dance was performed. The sand jig is so-called because sand was sprinkled on the floor to facilitate some of the movements of the dance, which involved in part lightly brushing the foot on the floor. The title may not refer to the famous Wild West outlaw who died in Arizona in 1881 (Billy the Kid, born Henry McCarty, alias Kid Antrim, alias William H. Bonney), as the sobriquet "Billy the Kid" was conferred on many young men named William in the 19th century.

Printed sources: Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 81. Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 2; Nop. 429, p. 49. Ryan's Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 113.

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