Old-time breakdown played in D from Virginia / North Carolina.
Played live:
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Early recording by Emmett Lundy:
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From Tunearch: "Most modern versions are derived from the playing of Grayson County, Virginia, fiddler Emmett Lundy (1864-1953). Lundy, who learned his repertoire in the 19th century, cited his most influential source as a local fiddler named Greenbury (Green) Leonard, who was an elderly man when Lundy learned tunes from him in the 1880's and 1890's. Alan Lomax collected the tune from Galax, Va., musician Fields Ward in 1937, and thought the tune related to "Old Dan Tucker." Later, in 1941, Lomax recorded Lundy playing "Ducks on the Millpond" for the Library of Congress. "Ducks on the Millpond" is sometimes confused with the similarly-titled Appalachian tune "Ducks on the Pond.""