The Squirrel Hunters
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Squirrel Hunters", also known as "Squirrel Hunting", "The Bell Cow" (Pa.),<br> "Dilly's Favorite" (Pa.), "Jenny Put the Kettle On" (Pa.), "Nigger in the Woodpile"<br> (Pa.), "Old Common Time" (Pa.) or "The Pennsylvania Quickstep" (Pa.) is an<br> American march in 2/4 or 4/4 time and A Mixolydian. The parts are played AB or AABB.<br> This tune was known in Pennsylvania primarily as a fife "stop-beat" piece (in which<br> both the fifes and drums stop playing to introduce a brief pause).<br> This version is approximately the same as Bayard's version A. Bayard gives it in 2/4<br> time with the note time values half of those given here. His version also has no<br> repeats.<br> Bayard has identified it as a member of "one of the most widespread of our British<br> Isles melodic families". He lists a few of the recurrent old-country titles of<br> members of this melodic complex: "The Oyster Wives Rant", "The Haughs of Cromdale",<br> "Wate You how the Play Began", "The Hillside", "Welcome Home" and "Fare Thee Well<br> Sweet Killaloe" and in his note to this tune he cites numerous other references.<br> I got the banjo tab at a Midwest Banjo Camp but I forget who passed it out.<br> It was printed in Bayard's Dance to the Fiddle (1981).<br> It was recorded by John Hartford on Wild Hog in the Brush and a Bunch of Others You<br> Might Not Have Heard (1996) and<br> Tallboys on Yeah Buddy (2006).<br>
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