Re: Squirrel Hunters - Which version?
Originally Posted by
Bob Buckingham
Interestingly enough, the tune is a fife tune collected by the late Samuel Bayard a professor from Penn State who amassed two books worth of tunes from Pennsylvania. Fife's and fiddles were popular as they were very portable. You can find Hill Country Tunes on line, the other book is Dance to the Fiddle March to the Fife which is a little more illusive. The fun thing with this tune is how you harmonize it. Some folks play it with an A and G chord, but you get a great motion from moving from Em to G and A in the first part and using G and A in the second part. The tune is unusual as it ends on the A chord. As with many fiddle tunes it is all in how you frame it with the chords.
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