'Tis Only Faire: A Song History

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"'Tis Only Faire" is a mountain dulcimer piece composed by Bing Futch, who includes it in DAA tuning in All Over The Map, a J.O.B. Entertainment tablature collection that mixes his own originals with folk classics.[1]

Colored lithograph of a busy fairground with show horses, cattle, a grandstand, a racetrack and a balloon overhead

Currier & Ives, A Great Fair on a Grand Scale, lithograph printed in color, 1894. Shown for the fair in the title; it has no connection to the tune.

Our book that contains the song "'Tis Only Faire"

Sources

  1. Bing Futch: "All Over The Map".
  2. Image: Currier & Ives, A Great Fair on a Grand Scale, lithograph printed in color, 1894. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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