CANDY KID. American, 'Straight Jig' (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB. A 'straight jig' was a duple time tune meant as an accompaniment to a solo dance. 'Straight jig' differentiates it from the 6/8 time Irish jig.
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Printed sources : - A.S. Bowman (J.W. Pepper Collection of Five Hundred Reels, Jigs, etc.), Phila., 1908; No. 113, p. 25.