Pete--I play it on guitar, in G, standard tuning. Are you playing "When the King... or "The World Turned Upside Down? The tune that I have for that (which I don't play) seems more suited to banjo--

Guest, is that the Martin Carthy version of Ives, or is it the Bela Fleck cover? My Fourth grade art teacher taught our class to play it in a nose-o-phone orchestra, and they wanted to send us all to the Julliard School, but our moms wouldn't let us go, cause it was a school night.