Five Miles from Town

Jam at Mt. Airy NC Festival. 10 minutes of fun. Mark Olitsky on banjo?

Key of D. Two parts. Very unusual structure for an old time tune.  Fiddlers can tune up the G string to an A.

Tune structure

Written with multiple time signatures [pdf] but I think of it like this:

Low part = 4 x ( 4 beats ) + TagHigh part = 3 x ( 5 beats ) + Tag.Tag = 2 x ( 4 beats ).

Not to be confused with...