Seneca Square Dance
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Seneca Square Dance", also known as “The Federal Hornpipe”, "Georgia Boys",<br> “(Got a) Little Home to Go To”, “Higher Up the Monkey Climbs”,<br> "John Hoban's Polka”, “Running from the Federals”,<br> “Shelby’s Mules” and "Waiting for the Federals" is an old-time breakdown in G Major.<br> The parts are played AB (Johnson), ABB (Ford), AABB (Phillips, Songer) or AA’BB’<br> (Beissenger & McCann).<br> The origin of the title is unknown. The tune is typically Anglo-American and was not<br> derived from music of the Seneca people.<br> It was printed in Beisswenger & McCann's Ozarks Fiddle Music (2008),<br> Ford's Traditional Music in America (1940),<br> Johnson's The Kitchen Musician No. 2: Occasional Collection of Old Timey Fiddle Tunes<br> for Hammer Dulcimer, Fiddle, etc. (1982) (revised 1988 & 2003),<br> Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 2 (1995) and<br> Songer's Portland Collection (1997).<br> It has been recorded by Aly Bain, Alan Jabbour, Clark Kessinger<br> and many others.<br>
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