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Watch Where You Tread
Found in DuckShitPolka_D.abc
from the John Chambers abc collection
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The background information for the tune is:
X: 1 T:Watch Where You Tread T:Duck-shit Polka M:2/4 L:1/16 %Q:225 C:by John Barry of Lewes S:Christopher George Partington <ChrisTheFiddlerPartington@Hotmail.com> tradtunes 2005-3-11 % N:Christopher writes: N: For those of you who do not know John and his fiddle and melodeon N: playing, (and for those who do), this seems a good time to drop N: into the Tradtune pond a tune that he wrote for a friend. He was N: good enough to send me a recording of his playing of it, and he is N: happy for it to be used subject to the usual copyright conditions. N: Actually I put that bit in as he's not worried by copyright issues N: "unless the Disney Corporation try to use it". N: N: John has a friend whose house has an open door onto the attached N: smallholding. The feathered captives have free access to the house N: and often use it for incubation and hatching purposes. One day N: when arriving for a practice he met the lodger who was just N: leaving. "When you go in, watch where you tread" said the lodger, N: hence one of the names of the tune. There were ducks in the living N: room and duck poo on the floor and he "had to do a polka/jig to N: avoid it", hence the other name. The practice continued, with John N: playing his fiddle with a cockerel perched on his shoulder, "-big N: bugger with plus-fours". Carry these images with you as you N: contemplate the rhythm. % O:England A:Sussex Z:Chris Partington K:D
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