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OWNYS' BEST. American, Jig. E Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The jig (first published in Boston in 1883) has some currency among Maritime fiddlers due to the recording by influential Cape Breton fiddler Winston "Scotty" Fitzgerald.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 66. Cranford (Jerry Holland's Collection), 1995; No. 245, p. 71. Ryan's Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 96.

Recorded sources:

See also listing at:
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings Index [1]

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