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Thread #7666   Message #46425
Posted By: Guy Wolff
22-Nov-98 - 12:43 AM
Thread Name: origin of the tune Staten Island
Subject: origin of the tune Staton Island
Years ago while playing concertina in New Hampshire I learned the Fiddle tune Staton Island and was told it was a tune from Marble Head Mass....Years later I learned that the Marblehead fishing fleet came down to save Washington's troops from the battle of Brooklyn {A sort of american vertion of Dunkurck} led by Johnathan Gover. Has anyone ever heard if this action was realy the origin for this tune? Regards to all............