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Annotation:Boatman Tune (The)

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Sheet Music for "The Boatman Tune"The Boatman TuneSource: Lauchlin Shaw (1912-1999, Harnett County, N.C.)Transcription: Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz



BOATMAN TUNE, THE. American, Reel (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "The Boatman Tune" is from the repertoire of North Carolina piedmont fiddler Lauchlin Shaw [1] (1912-1999) of Harnett County. Although Shaw played the tune as a reel, it may have derived from a schottische.

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See also listing at:
Hear a 1989 concert recording of Lauchlin Shaw at Slippery Hill [2]



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