- Style
- Old-time
- Tradition
- American old-time
- Form
- March
- Key
- D
- Level
- 4
- Played on
- Fiddle
In the public domain. Source
Music
90bpm
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Chord chart
History
The first part of this march turns up in Irish, Scottish and English tunes, among them the "Caledonian March," which George Willig printed in Philadelphia in 1837. It may also be related to an English hornpipe called "Durham Rangers."
Samuel Bayard heard it often from fiddlers and fifers in western Pennsylvania, under names that changed from county to county: "Bruce's March" in Fayette County, "The Star of Bethlehem" in Greene County. Bayard thought the Greene County name pointed to a hymn once sung to it.