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'''HOW OLD ARE  YOU, MY PRETTY LITTLE MISS?'''   American, Song Air (cut time). A Major. AEae tuning (fiddle). One part. The song and fiddled melody was recorded by Herbert Halpert for the Library of Congress in a field trip to Mississippi in 1939.  His informants were fiddler Ernest Claunch, accompanied by Mrs. Christeen Haygood on guitar.  Claunch sang these words to the melody:
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''How old are you, my pretty little miss,''<br>
''How old are you, my honey?''<br>
''I'm old enough for to kiss all day,''<br>
''I'll be sixteen next Sunday.''<br>
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''Oh, Fad-de-li-dank-tum, dod-de-la-da.''<br>
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Claunch told collector Halpert that it was "an old war song," perhaps dating its popularity in his area of Mississippi to American Civil War era (c. 1860's), although he himself had learned it "from an old grey-haired darkey." It is considerably older than that, however, as Bolick (2015) points out it is a derivative of the old ballad "[[Black Jack Davy (1)]]." 
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<font color=red>''Source for notated version''</font>: - W.E. "Ernest" Claunch, 1894-1958, Tishomingo County, Mississippi [Bolick & Austin].
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<font color=red>''Printed sources''</font> : -  Bolick & Austin ('''Mississippi Fiddle Tunes and Songs from the 1930's'''), 2015; p. 263. 
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<font color=red>''Recorded sources'': </font> <font color=teal> -Document DOCD-8071, Ernest Claunch - "Mississippi Fiddle Tunes and Songs from the 1930s" (2015. Various artists).  </font>
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