Port's Tune

X: 028026
T: Port's Tune
O: Reed, V, 1930s, B.
R: march
B: DTFMTF: Sam Bayard's "Dance to the Fiddle, March to the Fife" p.28 #26
Z: 2026 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: G
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d2 |\
g2d2 d2c2 | BAG2 G2B2 | cBA2 cBA2 | "^A.."Bcd2 d2g2 ||\
g2d2 d2c2 | BA G2 G2c2 | cBA2 cBA2 | AGG2 G2 |]
[| B2 |\
BAG2 BAG2 | A2B2 c4 | cBA2 cBA2 | B2c2 d4 ||\
dcB2 g2d2 | e2f2 g2e2 | d2c2 B2A2 | AGG2 G2 |]
y4 "^Var."y|| "A"B2 ||
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% % The player, paralyzed by a stroke, "deedled" this rather commonplace tune off to me,
% % as he had formerly played it on the fiddle. A general resemblance exists between No.
% % 26 and Sabbath Summons in McCurry, p. 149. The tune is named for the fiddler from
% % whom Reen learned it, one Port formerly living at McAlevy's Fort, Huntingdon County.
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Alternative sources for this tune:

• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/book/Bayard/Bayard_DTFMTF/0061

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