The Snouts & Ears of America
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Snouts and Ears of America" is an American quickmarch or reel in 4/4 time and<br> D Major. The parts are played AABB.<br> It was collected from Sarah Armstrong by Samuel Bayard on November 5, 1943.<br> Bayard knew of no other version of this tune from any other source but thought it<br> might possibly be a reworking of "The Irish Washerwoman" in 4/4 time with the order<br> of the parts reversed. Breathnach (1976) also noted the similarity. The similarity is<br> most noticeable in the second strain, however the tunes are not cognate and do not<br> seem to be particularly derivative. "The Snouts and Ears" seems to be more directly<br> derivative of the 18th century Scottish country dance "East Neuk of Fife".<br> Sarah Armstrong (1883 - 1957) contributed 37 of the 95 tunes in Hill Country Tunes<br> making her the most prolific source.<br> It was printed in Bayard's Hill Country Tunes (1944).<br>
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