Half Past Four
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Half Past Four" is an<br> American reel in whole or cut time and A Major. AEae tuning (fiddle).<br> The same tune was recorded in the mid-20th century by Edden Hammonds (Pochontas County,<br> West Virginia) who called it<br> "Paddy on the Turnpike".<br> Paul Mitchell suggests that Henry Reed's "Granny" (on the Hollow Rock String Band LP)<br> is a corrupt or undeveloped version of "Half Past Four."<br> Braxton County, West Virginia, fiddler Wilson Douglas played the tune under the title<br> "Paddy on the Pike".<br> The banjo tablature is by John Letscher.<br> It was printed in Clare Milliner & Walt Koken's The Milliner-Koken Collection of<br> American Fiddle Tunes (2011) and<br> Lamancusa's The Gettysburg Collection of Old-Time Fiddle Tunes (2021).<br> It was recorded by James Leva on Memory Theatre,<br> Bruce Molsky on Big Hoedown (1997) (Learned from a recording by Ed Haley),<br> Ed Haley on Grey Eagle, vol. 2 (1997),<br> Rhythm Rats on Young Fogies, Vol. II (1995)and<br> John Johnson on Strange Creek Fiddling 1947) (the tune is mislabled as<br> "Grey Eagle").<br>
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