Soldier's Joy (tune)

This is a dance tune (a reel) with scores of variants. It is often attributed to Joshua Cummings and there is a date of 1778 associated with it. In the United States, it is one of the tunes most commonly played by "old-time" musicians.

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Bruce Olsen refers to the incidence of the tune in a variety of printed sources. [1]

Also see Soldier's Joy (dance)