"Butler County", also known as "Perry's Victory" is an American jig or march in G and 6/8 time. It was known in Southwestern Pa. The parts are played AABB. Primarily by virtue of the alternate title "Perry's Victory", Bayard dates it to the late 18th century. Commodore Perry being the commander who was victorious against the British in the Battle of Lake Erie (1813). Why a tune known as "Perry's Victory", played by a Greene County fifer, should be known as "Butler County" is unknown to me. Bayard suggests the tune bears a resemblance to the Irish "O Southern Breeze" and is generally similar to "The Men of Garvagh" and "The Black Dance". It was adapted from a manuscript by fifer Thomas Hoge in Greene County, Pa. in 1944. It was printed in Bayard's Dance to the Fiddle (1981).