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Charlie Jones gave the alternate Texan names of Miss McLeod's

Over 30 years ago Samual Bayard collected several versions of this
tune in rural Pennsylvania that were going under the titles Do
You Want to Go the Heaven Uncle Joe, TheVirginia Reel, Old Mammie
Knickerbocker, and The Enterprise and Boxer. According to Bayard,
the tune was first published in Neil Gow's _Collection of
Strathspey Reels. A Fifth Collection_, Edinburg 1809, titled
"Mrs. McLeod of Raasay's Reel, Communicated by Mr. McLeod."

Reference: Samuel P. Bayard: Dance to the Fiddle, March to the
Fife. Pennsylvania State University Press, University Press and
London, 1982, page 480.

Larry
mallette@bcm.tmc.edu

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