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Revision as of 02:59, 19 July 2011
Tune properties and standard notation
GIPPIE GET YOUR HAIRCUT. AKA and see "Chippy/Tippie/Johnny/Hippie Get Your Hair Cut." Old-time, Breakdown. USA, W. Va. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Phillips/1989): AA'B (Phillips/1994) {the 'B' part is irregular}. Words to the tune go:
Johnny get your hair cut, hair cut, hair cut,
Johnny get your hair cut, hair cut short.
Johnny get your hair cut, hair cut, hair cut,
Johnny get your hair cut like a sport.
Joel Shimberg reports that West Virginia fiddler Melvin Wine sang the fragment "Gippy get your hair cut short like mine" to the melody.
Source for notated version: Clark Kessinger (W.Va.) [Milliner & Koken, Phillips].
Printed sources: Milliner & Koken (Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes), 2011; p. 237. Phillips (Fiddlecase Tunebook), 1989; pp. 20-21. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), vol. 1, 1994; p. 97.
Recorded sources: Brunswick 364 (78 RPM), The Kessinger Brothers (1929). County Records 536, Clark Kessinger. Rounder 0533, Roger Cooper - "Essence of Old Kentucky" (2006).