The Squirrel Hunters

In southwestern Pennsylvania this was mostly a fife tune, played in the "stop-beat" style, and Samuel Bayard collected it from nine fifers and fiddlers there under titles like "Old Common Time" and "Pennsylvania Quickstep." He placed it in a huge, old family of British Isles melodies he called the "Welcome Home" family, which includes "The Haughs of Cromdale" and "Sweet Killaloe."

John Hartford recorded it on his album Wild Hog in the Red Brush, and his version is the one most old-time jams now play.