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ATKINS POLKA #4. Canadian, Polka (2/4 time). Canada, Maritimes. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Popularized by radio and TV fiddler Don Messer and his group The Islanders. The tune was in the repertoire of Grant Lamb (b. 1915), former Manitoba champion fiddler, who sometimes called it "Cinnamon."

Additional notes

Printed sources : - Corfield (Tunes from New Brunswick), 2024; p. 10. Messer (Way Down East), 1948; No. 46. Messer (Anthology of Favorite Fiddle Tunes), 1980; No. 90, p. 60.

Recorded sources : - Voyager 312, "Grant Lamb: Manitoba Fiddler."

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