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I’ll Dance A Jig And I’ll Dance No More
American, Jig- Pennsylvania.
ARTIST: Mrs. Sarah Armstrong, (near) Derry, Pennsylvania, November 18, 1943 [Bayard]. Bayard (Hill Country Tunes), 1944; No. 7.
CATEGORY: Fiddle and Instrumental Tunes DATE: Early 1900’s
RECORDING INFO: Armstrong, Sarah. Hill Country Tunes: Instrumental Folk Music of Southwestern Penn, Amer. Folklore Society, fol (1944), 7
OTHER NAMES: "O Dear Mother My Toes Are Sore."
SOURCES: From Ceolas: Her tune is one known also in Greene County and in central Pennsylvania to versions of the rhyme (Bayard Coll., Nos. 86, 111, 340), and there are other southwestern Pennsylvania airs with the same or similar names, bespeaking connection with this little formula (e.g., Bayard Coll., Nos. 5, 306). It is possible that this tune might be a remote connection of the widespread and multiform old air represented by Nos. 44-48 and 49 in this collection (See "Oro, Welcome Home")" Bayard, 1944).
NOTES: A Mixolydian. Standard. One part. "This air takes its title from another form of the jingle quoted in connection with "O Dear Mother My Toes Are Sore." Mrs. Armstrong's form of the rhyme is:
I'll dance a jig and I'll dance no more,
Till Daddy comes home from Baltimore;
I'll dance no more, my feet are sore,
Dancin' all over the sandy floor.
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