Key signature: Fmajor
Submitted on December 4th 2002 by lazyhound.
This tune has been added to 8 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Batchelder's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Fmaj
f2af efge|f2c2 c2=Bc|dcBA BAGF|EFGA Bcde|
f2af efge|f2c2 (3cdc =Bc|dcBA BAGF|EFGE F4:|
|:A2cA cAcA|B2dB dBdB|A2cA cAcA|BAGF EFGB|
A2cA cAcA|B2dB dBdB|Acfa bgeg|f2a2 f2c2:||
From New England Fiddler's Repertoire.
# Posted on December 4th 2002 by lazyhound
This tune is also on JC's database in F, together with a slightly different version in G and in 2/4, as follows:
M:2/4
L:1/16
K:G
d2|:g2bg fgaf|g2d2- d2=cd|edcB cBAG|1 FGAB cdef:|2 FGAF G4:|
|:B2dB dBdB|c2ec ecec|1 B2dB dBdB|cBAG FGAc :|2 Bdgb c'afa | g2b2 g4:||
Both versions in JC's come with chords, which I've stripped out for the purposes of this posting.
# Posted on December 4th 2002 by lazyhound
Nice tune. It has more of a hornpipe feel to it than a reel.
# Posted on December 5th 2002 by granama
Reel Or Hornpipe?
I don't know about you but this tune definately sounds like it should be a hornpipe!!
# Posted on January 2nd 2004 by fiddlinzombie
"New England Fiddler's Repertoire"
by Randy Miller and Jack Perron, first published in 1983.
http://www.randymillerprints.com/fiddletunebooks.htm
Page 130: "Batchelder's Reel"
# Posted on March 9th 2006 by ceolachan
Reel Or Hornpipe?
"I don't know about you but this tune definately sounds like it should be a hornpipe!!"
It appears in Ryan's /Cole's as "Atlanta Hornpipe."
# Posted on September 25th 2006 by Bo_in_VA