Annotation:Paddy won't You Drink some Cider?

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PADDY WON'T YOU DRINK SOME (GOOD OLD) CIDER. AKA and see "Davy Davy," "Sailing Down the River," "Old Grey Goose (3)." Old-Time, Breakdown. USA; North Georgia, North Carolina, Kentucky, Arkansas, Oklahoma. D Major. Standard or ADae tuning (fiddle). ABB (Hensley/Beisswenger & McCann): AABB (most versions). The title appears in a list of traditional Ozark Mountain fiddle tunes compiled by musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph, published in 1954. The Frank Brown collection (vol. III, pg. 74) gives a North Carolina version (with ‘Sallie’ instead of ‘Paddy’) and links it to the titles “Sweet Cider” and “Pretty Little Black-Eyed Susan.” Arkansas fiddler and violin maker Violet Hensley’s version is crooked in the second strain. Early (78 RPM) recordings were by the eastern Kentucky group The Jimmy Johnson String Band, featuring fiddler Andy Palmer (b. 1881, Anderson County, Kentucky), G.B. Grayson & Henry Whitter (1927), Arthur Tanner (1930), and J.E. Mainer (1938).

Paddy won't you drink some,
Paddy won't you drink some,
Paddy won't you drink some good ole cider.

Had a little cider last night
A little night before, sir,
Going out tomorrow night to get a little more, sir.

You be the horse,
And I'll be the rider,
Going to Paddy Watson's to get a little cider. (Riley Puckett & Clayton McMichen, 1929)

Sources for notated versions: The Skillet Lickers (Atlanta, Georgia) [Kuntz]; Ed Hicks (Adair County, Oklahoma) [Thede]; Harvey Taylor [Phillips]; Violet Hensley (b. 1916, Montgomery County, Arkansas) [Beisswenger & McCann].

Printed sources: Beisswenger & McCann (Ozarks Fiddle Music), 2008; p. 54. Brody (Fiddler’s Fakebook), 1983; p. 215. Ford (Traditional Music in America), 1940; p. 41. Kuntz (Ragged But Right), 1987; pp. 331-332. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1), 1994; p. 180. Thede (The Fiddle Book), 1967; p. 53.

Recorded sources: Columbia 15358D (78 RPM), Clayton McMichen with Riley Puckett (1929). Flying Fish 089, The Red Clay Ramblers - "Chuckin' the Frizz" (1979. Learned from "Lowe Stokes et. al.). Folkways FA 2472, "Roger Sprung Plays Progressive Bluegrass, vol. 3" (1965). Rounder 1023, Gid Tanner and His Skillet Lickers (North Ga., 1928) - "The Kickapoo Medicine Show." Rounder CD0421, Bruce Molsky - “Big Hoedown” (1997. Learned from the Jimmie Johnson String Band of Kentucky ). Tennvale 004, Pete Sutherland - "An Anthology."

See also listing at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]
Hear Kentucky fiddler Clyde Davenport (fiddle and vocal) at the Digital Library of Appalachia [[2]]

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