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'''HOP UP, KITTY PUSS [1]'''. AKA and see- "[[Black Eyed Susie (1)]]," "[[Kitty Puss]]," "[[Possum Up a Simmon Tree (1)]]," "[[Puncheon Camp]]," "[[Puncheon Camps]]." Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, Oklahoma. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Marion Thede linked her Oklahoma-collected tune with "[[Black Eyed Susie (1)]]," and also noted that the tune had been brought to Oklahoma from Missouri.  
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''Hop Up Kitty Puss, hop a little higher,''<br>
''Hop Up Kitty Puss, your tail's on fire.''<br>
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''O my honey, O my sugar,''<br>
''O my pretty little black-eyed Susie.''<br>
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''Rain come wet me, sun come dry me,''<br>
''Stand back pretty girl, don't come nigh me.''<br>
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''Source for notated version'': John Crawford (McIntosh County, Oklahoma) [Thede].
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''Printed sources'': Thede ('''The Fiddle Book'''), 1967; p. 89.
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See also listing at:<br>
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources []<br>
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