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February 9-10, 2008

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Some Favorite Jam Tunes

Arkansas Traveler(D)
The Ashgrove (G) or (D)*       
Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine (D)
Brian Boru's March (Em)    
Colored Aristocracy
Down the Brae
Fisher's Hornpipe (D)
Flowers of Edinborough (G)
Golden Slippers (G) or (D)*
Harvest Home (D)*
Jenny Lind Polka (D, (B part in G )
John Ryan's Polka (D)      
Kitchen Girl    (A modal)      
Liberty (D)*
Mississippi Sawyer (D)*
Music for a Found Harmonium (D)
Nonesuch (D Dorian)
Off to California (G)      
Off She Goes (D)*
Old French
Over the Waterfall (D)*
Petronella (D)         

Planxty George Brabizon (G)
Planxty Fanny Po'er (G)
Red Haired Boy (A)
Rights of Man (Em)
Road to Lisdoonvarna (Em)*
Scollay's Reel
Si Bheag Si Mohr (D)*
Simple Gifts (G) or (D)*
Soldier's Joy (D)*
Southwind (G)*
St. Anne's Reel (D)*
Staten Island Hornpipe
Swallowtail Jig (Em)
Swinging on a Gate (G)
Tenpenny Bit    (Am)       
Tobin's Favorite (D)       
Tripping Up Stairs (D)
Turkey In the Straw (G)
Westphalia Waltz (G)
Whiskey Before Breakfast (D)
Wind That Shakes the Barley (D)

This list is a good place to start… it's impossible to list "all the tunes", but knowing a bunch of these is good preparation for new players.

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Some Old-time tunes for medleys may include some of the following…

Soldier's Joy, Mississippi Sawyer, Liberty, Buffalo Gals, Mrs. McLeod's Reel, Sandy River Belle, Flop Eared Mule and Cindy.
Other Favorites...
Valley Forge, Double File, Bunch of Keys, Ducks on the Mill Pond, Snake Chapman's, ˝ past 4, Polly Put the Kettle On, Bunch of Roses, Duck River, Kiss Me Quick, Daddy's Coming, Hangman's Reel, Lost Indian, Brasstown,
Turkey in the Straw, Chinquapin Hunting, Indian Ate the Woodchuck, Rattlesnake Bit the Baby, Black Mountain Rag, Old Mother Flanagan, Fly Around Pretty, Rock the Cradle, Cold Frosty Morn, West Fork Gals, Big Sciota
Sail Away Ladies, Forked Deer, Waterbound, Bonaparte's Retreat, Old Molly Hare, Billy in the Lowground, Seneca Square Dance, Lost Girl, June Apple, Sourwood Mountain
Pretty Little Dog

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