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Swallow Tail (Hill)

First notes: E

This tune appears in Samuel Preston Bayard’s Hill Country Tunes: Instrumental Folk Music of Southwestern Pennsylvania (Memoir of the American Folklore Society, 1944). It is a jig, but different than the more well-known Swallow Tail Jig.

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