Bumblebee in a Jug
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Bumblebee in a Jug", also known as "Bumblebee in a Jar" is an American reel in<br> cut time and D Major. The parts are played AAB (Phillips) or AABB' (Songer).<br> The B part is supposed to imitate a bee trapped in a jug.<br> John Hartford (1996) traces the tune through successive fiddlers. Most modern versions<br> derived from George "Geo" Lee Hawkins of Bath County, Kentucky, who learned it from<br> Tom Riley whose parents had emigrated from Ireland to Flemming County, Kentucky.<br> Tom Riley later moved to Marion County, Indiana, where Dick (John) Summers picked<br> it up. Hawkins also taught the tune to Bruce Greene and Jane Harrod,<br> from whom Hartford and Roger Cooper learned it. Hawkins and Cooper play the tune in<br> the key of 'C'.<br> It was printed in Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1 (1994) and<br> Songer's Portland Collection (1997).<br> It was recorded by Geo Hawkins on Traditional Fiddle Music of Kentucky, vol. 1,<br> Roger Cooper (Garrison, Ky.) and<br> John Hartford on Wild Hog in the Red Brush (and a Bunch of Others You Might Not Have<br> Heard) (1996).<br>
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