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T: Dance to the Fiddle, March to the Fife
T: Instrumental Folk Tunes in Pennsylvania
%D: 1981
C: ed. Samuel P. Bayard
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%%center "Then the drums did beat and rattle,
%%center	And the fife did sweetly play;
%%center	She arched up to the enemy
%%center	And bravely fought away.
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%%center	The fiddler being willing,
%%center	And his arm a-being strong,
%%center	He played "The Drownded Irishman"
%%center	For four hours along.
%%center	(From Pennsylvania Folksong Versions)

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Dance to the Fiddle, March to the Fife: Instrumental Folk Tunes in Pennsylvania
by Samuel P. Bayard was published in 1981 (sometimes cited as 1982). This, book compiles hundreds of instrumental folk tunes, primarily fiddle and fife tunes, collected in southwestern Pennsylvania and parts of West Virginia starting in the 1920s. 
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