Rum and Onions
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Rum and Onions" is an American jig in G Major and E minor. It is an irregular tune: there are<br> two measures of 2/4 time at end of each part. The parts are played AABB.<br> Rum, boiled together with onions, was once a treatment for gout and kidney stones and, applied to<br> the scalp, a remedy for hair loss.<br> For the past 30 years or more "Rum and Onions" has been the name of a special Halloween contra dance<br> in Princeton, New Jersey, with the Rum & Onions pick-up contra dance band with a core of<br> experienced musicians.<br> The tune resembles "The Irish Washerwoman" in the Celtic section.<br> It was printed in<br> Cole's 1000 Fiddle Tunes (1940),<br> Tolman's Nelson Music Collection (1969) and<br> Ryan’s Mammoth Collection (1883).<br>
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