X: 1
T: Up Country
S: Don Messer
R: jig
Z: 2006 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
K: G
c \
|B2c dcB | c2A f2g | agf e2d | g2B d2B |
G2B dcB | c2A f2g | fed cBA |1 G3 G2 :|2 G3 G||
|: ga \
|b2g dcB | cBA f2g | agf e2d | g2B dga |
b2g dcB | c2A f2g | fed cBA |1 GBd f :|2 G3 z |]
UP COUNTRY. AKA and see "Moulin à vent (Le)." Canadian, Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Up Country" has been attributed to Maritime radio and TV fiddler Don Messer. However, Peter Corfield has the same tune in his Tunes from New Brunswick (2024) as "Le moulin à vent" (The Windmill) and cites it as "Trad."
Additional notes
Printed sources : - Messer (Anthology of Favorite Fiddle Tunes), 1980; No. 156, p. 105.
Recorded sources : - Rodeo RLPCD 8044, Graham Townsend - "Still Going Strong" (1995).
