Jay Ungar - Ashokan Farewell

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3. Yes that's a doleful fiddle tune.

One of my favorites is Bonaparte's Retreat which I'd never heard before I went down to the bottom of KY in 2002 to visit a friend's dad.

Here's a latter day version from the Transatlantic Sessions :

And here's the '30s version I heard in KY :

I read once that the tune was what the Scottish pipers played to see the French off the field at the Battle of Waterloo.