Annotation:Cathrine's Dead

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CATH(A)RINE'S DEAD. Irish, American, Jig (6/8 time). USA, northern Indiana. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. An Irish jig collected in northern Indiana. Bayard's source could only remember one line of the ditty sung to this tune:

Catharine's dead and her daddy don't know it.

He did, however, remember that there was the belief that if this tune was sung at a dance or a party then someone would die.

Additional notes

Source for notated version: - Donald Smalley (northern Indiana, 1930's; tune learned from his father) [Bayard].

Printed sources : - Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; Appendix No. 32, p. 585.

Recorded sources: -

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