Annotation:French CPR Worker's Reel (A)
X:1 T:French CPR Worker's Reel, A M:4/4 L:1/8 R:Reel B:Corfield - "Tunes from New Brunswick" (2024, p. 1) K:G GE|:DB,DG BAGE|....
FRENCH CPR WORKER'S REEL, A. Canadian, Reel. Canada; P.E.I, New Brunswick. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. Peter Corfield, in his book Tune from New Brunswick (2024) explains the tune was learned by the Campbell family from a transient CPR (railroad) worker passing through Tweedside, New Brunswick. Corfield notes that the tune has been in the repertory of P.E.I. musicians for more than a hundred years, and is associated with the playing of Joseph Doucette.
