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''Source for notated version'': Buddy Thomas [http://fieldrecorder.org/buddy-thomas-autobiography/] (Lewis County, Ky) [Phillips]. | ''Source for notated version'': Buddy Thomas [http://fieldrecorder.org/buddy-thomas-autobiography/] (Emerson, Lewis County, Ky) [Phillips]. | ||
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Hear Buddy Thomas's 1974 field recording by Barbara Kunkle at the Digital Library of Appalachia [http://dla.acaweb.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/berea/id/2089/rec/27]<br> | Hear Buddy Thomas's 1974 field recording by Barbara Kunkle at the Digital Library of Appalachia [http://dla.acaweb.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/berea/id/2089/rec/27]<br> | ||
See Lisa Ornstein's standard notation transcription [http://www.lisaornstein.com/old-time-tune-of-the-month-for-sept-2012-possum-up-a-simmon-tree/]<br> | |||
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POSSUM UP A SIMMON TREE [1]. AKA and see “Kitty Puss,” "Puncheon Camp(s)." Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, Ky. A Major/Mixolydian (Phillips]. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody is the same as Clyde Davenport's (Monticello, Ky.) "Puncheon Camp(s)."
On his field recording Thomas is hear reciting:
Possum up a simmon tree,
One eye shining down on me;
that possum in the eye.
Source for notated version: Buddy Thomas [1] (Emerson, Lewis County, Ky) [Phillips].
Printed sources: Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1), 1994; p 188.
Recorded sources: Field Recorder's Collective FRC303 - "Buddy Thomas." Rounder 0032, Buddy Thomas (northeast Ky.) - "Kitty Puss: Old-Time Fiddle Music From Ky."
See also listing at:
Hear Buddy Thomas's 1974 field recording by Barbara Kunkle at the Digital Library of Appalachia [2]
See Lisa Ornstein's standard notation transcription [3]