New Five Cents

This is one of the Money Tunes. It’s an old time hoedown. This tab chart is close to how I play it most of the time.

I think of the changes that the US Mint has put the Jefferson nickel through in recent years. Either you like it or not. I call it okay.

Fiddle tab chart for New Five Cents

New Five Cents in fiddle tab

When it comes to printing it out, this is better: New Five Cents in pdf.

Ten Penny Bit

Fiddle Tab of Ten Penny Bit

Two bits, four bits, six bits, a dollar. These bits were parts of a dollar, pieces of eight. Each one was worth about 12.5 cents. When one of them got really worn, you had a Ten Penny Bit.

Download the tune as a pdf file.