Running Through the Rain to Keep Your Hair Dry
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Running Through the Rain to Keep Your Hair Dry" is a Pennsylvania tune in<br> Samuel Bayard's collection. It is in E minor. The parts are played AB.<br> Bayard's comments:<br> This air has all the hallmarks of having come directly from older British Isles<br> tradition, but it has proved hard to find in old-country collections. However<br> the tune called "The Reel of Malinavat" represented by O'Neil's Music of<br> Ireland, No. 1316 ... definitely appears to be a form of this same<br> composition ... The only piece known to me in American tradition that is<br> unmistakenly a version of (this tune) is "Seely Simkins" in Bruce-Emmett's<br> The Drummer's and Fifer's Guide (1880) p. 78, ostensibly a fifer's tune.<br> Some phrases seem to be minor key versions of some phrases in "The Girl I Left<br> Behind Me".<br> The title for this tune, collected from informant Walter Neal in Armstrong<br> County, PA, was probably his own invention.<br> It was printed in Bayard's Dance to the Fiddle (1982).<br>
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