- Style
- Old-time
- Tradition
- American old-time
- Form
- Reel
- Key
- G
- Level
- 3
- Played on
- Fiddle
In the public domain. Source
Music
90bpm
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Chord chart
History
The tune is best known as "Seneca Square Dance." "Fiddlin'" Sam Long of the Ozarks recorded it under that name for Gennett in Richmond, Indiana, in January 1926. Seneca may mean the Seneca people moved to northeast Oklahoma, near southwest Missouri, or the town of Seneca, Missouri.
Other names hint at Civil War times and hiding from the law: "Waiting for the Federals," "Running from the Federals" and "Shelby's Mules," after Confederate cavalry general Joseph Shelby. Irish players know a version of it as "John Hoban's Polka."