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'''LITTLE BOY, WHERE'D YOU GET YOUR BRITCHES? ''' AKA and see "[[Little Boy Little Boy]]." Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, Kentucky. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Titon): AABB (Phillips). The 'B' part is a variant of the 'A' part of the Kentucky tune "[[Huldy in the Sinkhole]]." Source Davenport learned the tune from his father, Will Davenport, and is the only source for the melody. He sang this ditty to the tune: | '''LITTLE BOY, WHERE'D YOU GET YOUR BRITCHES? ''' AKA - "Hey Little Boy Where'd You Get Your Britches?" AKA and see "[[Little Boy Little Boy]]." Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, Kentucky. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Titon): AABB (Phillips). The 'B' part is a variant of the 'A' part of the Kentucky tune "[[Huldy in the Sinkhole]]." Source Davenport learned the tune from his father, Will Davenport, and is the only source for the melody. He sang this ditty to the tune: | ||
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''Source for notated version'': Clyde Davenport (Monticello, Wayne County, Ky.) [Phillips, Titon]. | ''Source for notated version'': Clyde Davenport (Monticello, Wayne County, Ky.) [Phillips, Titon]. | ||
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''Recorded sources'': <font color=teal>Berea College Appalachian Center AC002, Clyde Davenport - "Puncheon Camps " (1992). Rounder 0197, Bob Carlin - "Banging & Sawing" (1985. Learned from fiddler Clyde Davenport via New York revival fiddler Liz Slade).</font> | ''Recorded sources'': <font color=teal>Berea College Appalachian Center AC002, Clyde Davenport - "Puncheon Camps " (1992). Rounder 0197, Bob Carlin - "Banging & Sawing" (1985. Learned from fiddler Clyde Davenport via New York revival fiddler Liz Slade).</font> | ||
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Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/l07.htm#Litbowhy]<br> | |||
Hear Clyde Davenport play the tune at Berea Digital Content [http://cdm15131.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15131coll4/id/1453/rec/7], recorded by John Harrod.<br> | |||
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LITTLE BOY, WHERE'D YOU GET YOUR BRITCHES? AKA - "Hey Little Boy Where'd You Get Your Britches?" AKA and see "Little Boy Little Boy." Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, Kentucky. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Titon): AABB (Phillips). The 'B' part is a variant of the 'A' part of the Kentucky tune "Huldy in the Sinkhole." Source Davenport learned the tune from his father, Will Davenport, and is the only source for the melody. He sang this ditty to the tune:
Little boy, little boy, where'd you get your britches?
Daddy cut 'em out and Mammy sewed the stitches.
Source for notated version: Clyde Davenport (Monticello, Wayne County, Ky.) [Phillips, Titon].
Printed sources: Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1), 1994; p. 142. Titon (Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes), 2001; No. 92, p . 121.
Recorded sources: Berea College Appalachian Center AC002, Clyde Davenport - "Puncheon Camps " (1992). Rounder 0197, Bob Carlin - "Banging & Sawing" (1985. Learned from fiddler Clyde Davenport via New York revival fiddler Liz Slade).
See also listing at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]
Hear Clyde Davenport play the tune at Berea Digital Content [2], recorded by John Harrod.