Hey Dr. Abby, don't you forget now, you can transpose your ass off in Noteworthy... see me for details. Anyway just announce blithely to the fiddle players that they are to accompany you on "Colored Aristocracy" in F. That oughtta get some kinda reaction.

BTW finding the chords is not as important as knowing when to change, and NOT change them... do like I do. Listen to the piece, listening just for the accented beats. See what melody is made JUST by those notes. It will turn out to be a highly simplified but quite lovely (usually) piece. This will get stiuck in your head-- like downloaded software that self-installs. The result will be a new song lying under the fiddlified, ornamented, baroquey-runny piece, where it is very easy to catch the feel of the piece, the flow of the melody through the chord changes, and the place where they change. Experiment, swapping in some of the relative minors chords in place of the more obvious major chords... then you'll be cookin'. Like, play it through all in majors, then on the repeat make your selected ones minor... gives it a nice permutation of expression.

~S~