Annotation:Safe Harbor Rag

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X:1 T:Safe Harbor Rag N:From the playing of Lynn Chirps Smith (b. 1952, Illinois), M:C| L:1/8 R:Country Rag D:https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/safe-harbor-rag D:Chirps Smith Home Recordings Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:F (e2|S[c2f2])[c2f2]efeA|dAdA c3e|f-efg e[c3e3]|[d3f3][df] [d2f2]e(e| [cf]e)[cf]f efeA|dAdA cBAB|cBcc dcAG|[FA]E[FA]G [F2A2]:| K:C D2|:C2D2 E-G3|[G4c4][Gc]BAB|cdcB AG3|[C3F3][CF] [C2F2][C2F2]| [G,2G2][D2A2][D2B2][D2d2]|[d3g3][dg]- [dg]fef |gagf ed3|1[E3c3][Ec][E2c2](3G,A,B,:|2[E2c2]a2-aag2S||

SAFE HARBOR RAG. AKA - "Safe Harbor Reel." American, Country Rag (cut time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. Composed by the late Safe Harbor, Pennsylvania, musician Dick Walton. Ironically, Safe Harbor is on the Susquehanna river of Pennsylvania—right between two nuclear power plants at Peachbottom and Three Mile Island.

Additional notes

Source for notated version: - Pete Sutherland (Vt.) & Mosheh Savitsky [Phillips].

Printed sources : - Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 2), 1995; p. 120. Young Fogies.

Recorded sources: - Community Music CMCD 202, Cathy Fink -" Banjo Haiku: 26 Clawhammer Banjo Tunes" (1992). Field Recorders Collective FRC 608, Chirps Smith - "From the Home Recordings of Chirps Smith" (2015). Heritage/Galax 056, Hard Tack and Pigs Feet - "Young Fogies" (1984. Various artists).

See also listing at:
Hear Cathy Fink's recording on youtube.com [1]
Hear Chirps Smith's recording at the Field Recorders Collective site [2] and Slippery Hill [3]