Annotation:Tramp Tramp Tramp

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TRAMP, TRAMP, TRAMP. AKA and see "God Save Ireland." American, Air and March (6/8 time). USA, southwestern Pa. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. A staple fifer's march based on the extremely popular American Civil War song by wikipedia:George_F._Root (1820-1895). Root was born at Sheffield, Massachusetts, and studied music in Boston and Paris, earning a doctorate in music at Chicago University. He was a supporter of music in the American school curriculum. Other Civil War song compositions of Root’s were “The Battle-Cry of Freedom” and “Just Before the Battle, Mother.” “Tramp, Tramp, Tramp” is also well-known as the melody of “God Save Ireland.”

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Source for notated version : - Clyde Lloyd (fifer from Indiana County, Pa., 1952) [Bayard].

Printed sources : - Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 564, p. 501. Sweet (Fifer’s Delight), 1965/1981; p. 11.

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