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Also known as	Property "Is also known as" (as page type) with input value ""Fire on/in the Mountain [1" contains invalid characters or is incomplete and therefore can cause unexpected results during a query or annotation process."Fire on/in the Mountain [1], " "Granny, Property "Is also known as" (as page type) with input value "Will Your Dog Bite? [1" contains invalid characters or is incomplete and therefore can cause unexpected results during a query or annotation process.Will Your Dog Bite? [1], "High Betty Martin, Hog Eye (1), Hog-Eye Man, I Betty Martin, Old Mother Gofour, Pretty Betty Martin, Tip Toe Fine, Tip Toe Pretty Betty Martin, Very Pretty Martin
Composer/Core Source
Region	United States
Genre/Style	Old-Time
Meter/Rhythm	Reel (single/double)
Key/Tonic of
Accidental
Mode
Time signature	4/4
History
Structure
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Samuel Bayard
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Dance to the Fiddle March to the Fife
Tune and/or Page number	No. 60, pp. 41-43
Year of publication/Date of MS	1981
Artist	Biography:West Orrtanna String Band (The)
Title of recording	West Orrtanna String Band (The)
Record label/Catalogue nr.	Revonah Records RS-924
Year recorded	1976
Media
Score ()

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BETTY MARTIN. AKA and see "Fire on the Mountain (1)," "Granny, Will Your Dog Bite? [1]," "High Betty Martin," "Hog Eye (1)," "Hog-Eye Man," "I Betty Martin," "Old Mother Gofour," "Pretty Betty Martin," "Tip Toe Fine," "Very Pretty Martin." Old-Time, Breakdown; American, Reel. USA, southwestern Pa. A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Samuel Bayard (1981) found no British antecedents for this group of tunes. Wilkinson has researched a connection between the "Fire on the Mountain" version of the melody and a Norse "halling" tune published in Norges Melodier (Copenhagen, 1875). Bayard confirms the two tunes are so close that in his opinion a connection is most likely, and concludes that, since "Free (Fire) on the Mountain" was published in a U.S. manuscript (Riley's Flute Melodies) in 1814 or 1815, that the transmission must have been before that. He asks, "Is it possible that this melody represents one of the few scattered cultural relics of the 17th century 'Delaware Swedes'?" (Bayard, 1981). A similar tune by the name of "I Betty Martin" appears in an American MS., "A. Shattuck's Book" (c. 1801). Bayard also states that the following lyrics were sometimes sung to the tune in Pennsylvania:

Cat's in the cream crock, run, girls, run!

Reminiscent of the old-time lyric "Fire on the mountains, run, boys, run." Also sung to the "Betty Martin" melody in that state was:

You get up on a Sunday-morning, Just before the break of day; There you see your own true lovyer Just a-marching, a-marching away. Chorus: Little Betty Martin, tiptoe, tiptoe, Little Betty Martin, tiptoe fine. or the alternate chorus: Granny will your dog bite? No, child, no, child, Granny will your dog bite? No, child, no.

See also the Irish polka "Biddy Martin." While it is melodically dissimilar to the American "Betty Martin" tunes, it is similar in character, and the lyrics are similar. The tune was apparently used to teach dance steps to Irish children.

Sources for notated versions: Bayard (1981) gives six versions from six different southwestern Pa. fiddlers--one, from Irvin Yaugher, was origianlly from his great-uncle Uriah, born in 1792.

Printed source: Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 60, pp. 41-43.

Recorded source: Revonah Records RS-924, "The West Orrtanna String Band" (1976).

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-'''BETTY MARTIN'''. AKA and see  "Fire on/in the Mountain [1]," "Granny, Will Your Dog Bite? [1]," "High, Betty Martin," "Hog Eye [1]," "Hog-Eye Man," "I Betty Martin," "Old Mother Gofour," "Pretty Betty Martin,"  "Tip Toe Fine," "Very Pretty Martin." Old-Time, Breakdown; American, Reel. USA, southwestern Pa. A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Samuel Bayard (1981) found no British antecedents for this group of tunes. Wilkinson has researched a connection between the "Fire on the Mountain" version of the melody and a Norse "halling" tune published in Norges Melodier (Copenhagen, 1875). Bayard confirms the two tunes are so close that in his opinion a connection is most likely, and concludes that, since "Free (Fire) on the Mountain" was published in a U.S. manuscript ('''Riley's Flute Melodies''') in 1814 or 1815, that the transmission must have been before that. He asks, "Is it possible that this melody represents one of the few scattered cultural relics of the 17th century 'Delaware Swedes'?" (Bayard, 1981). A similar tune by the name of "I Betty Martin" appears in an American MS., "A. Shattuck's Book" (c. 1801). Bayard also states that the following lyrics were sometimes sung to the tune in Pennsylvania:
+'''BETTY MARTIN'''. AKA and see  "[[Fire on the Mountain (1)]]," "Granny, Will Your Dog Bite? [1]," "[[High Betty Martin]]," "[[Hog Eye (1)]]," "Hog-Eye Man," "I [[Betty Martin]]," "[[Old Mother Gofour]]," "[[Pretty Betty Martin]],"  "[[Tip Toe Fine]]," "[[Very Pretty Martin]]." Old-Time, Breakdown; American, Reel. USA, southwestern Pa. A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Samuel Bayard (1981) found no British antecedents for this group of tunes. Wilkinson has researched a connection between the "Fire on the Mountain" version of the melody and a Norse "halling" tune published in Norges Melodier (Copenhagen, 1875). Bayard confirms the two tunes are so close that in his opinion a connection is most likely, and concludes that, since "Free (Fire) on the Mountain" was published in a U.S. manuscript ('''Riley's Flute Melodies''') in 1814 or 1815, that the transmission must have been before that. He asks, "Is it possible that this melody represents one of the few scattered cultural relics of the 17th century 'Delaware Swedes'?" (Bayard, 1981). A similar tune by the name of "I Betty Martin" appears in an American MS., "A. Shattuck's Book" (c. 1801). Bayard also states that the following lyrics were sometimes sung to the tune in Pennsylvania:
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