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Annotation:Come Up the Back Stairs

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COME UP THE BACK STAIRS. AKA and see "Merry Dance (The)." New England, Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune has a long New England pedigree (see Annotation:Merry Dance (The)).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Miller & Perron (New England Fiddler's Repertoire), 1983; No. 27. Page (Ralph Page Book of Contras), 1969; p. 3. Sweet (Fifer's Delight), 1964/1981; p. 69.

Recorded sources: Fretless 119, Rodney and Randy Miller--"Castles in the Air."




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