"Half Past Four" is an old-time breakdown in A Major. It is played in AEae fiddle tuning. The parts are played AA'BB'.
The same tune was recorded in the mid-20th century by Edden Hammonds who called it "Paddy on the Turnpike" even though the tunes are very different. Braxton County, West Virginia, fiddler Wilson Douglas played a version of this tune under the title "Paddy on the Pike".
The banjo tablature is by John Letscher.
It was printed in Fiddler Magazine (1999) and Lamancusa's The Gettysburg Collection of Old-Time Fiddle Tunes (2021).
It was recorded by James Leva on Memory Theatre (2006), Bruce Molsky on Big Hoedown (1997), Ed Haley on Grey Eagle (1997), John Johnson on Strange Creek Fiddling 1947 (the tune is mislabeled as "Grey Eagle") (2007), Leela and Ellie Grace on Leela and Ellie Grace (2003), Bruce Molsky on Bruce Molsky and Big Hoedown (1997) and Rhythm Rats on Young Fogies, Vol. II (1995).