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It Thundered In The East
American, Reel, Southwestern Pa.
ARTIST: Thomas Patterson (Elizabeth, Pa., 1930's) [Bayard]. CATEGORY: Fiddle and Instrumental Tunes DATE: Early 1900’s RECORDING INFO:
OTHER NAMES: Similar to "Jordan Is a Hard Road to Travel" SOURCES: Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 89, pg. 54.
NOTES: G Major. Standard. AB. The tune is similar to minstrel Dan Emmett's "Jordan Is a Hard Road to Travel" ("Kingdom Coming", "Year of Jubilo"); Bayard (1981) thinks it likely they may both have been derived from some common ancestor. The ditty below was recited by Bayard's source:
It thundered in the East,
And it thundered in the West,
And it thundered in the Allegheny Mountains. (Bayard)
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