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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)]]." [[File:thomas.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Buddy Thomas (1934-1974)]]  
'''POSSUM UP A SIMMON TREE [1].''' AKA and see “[[Kitty Puss]],” "[[Puncheon Camp(s)]]," "[[Sally Ann the Gal I Like]]." 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)]]." [[File:thomas.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Buddy Thomas (1934-1974)]]  
On his field recording Thomas is hear reciting:
On his field recording Thomas is hear reciting:
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''that possum in the eye.''<br>
''that possum in the eye.''<br>
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See also cognate tunes "[[Little Sally Ann]]" and "[[Sally Ann the Gal I Like]]" from Pike County, Ky., fiddler Owen "Snake" Chapman, and "[[Nancy Anne]]" from West Virginia fiddler and banjo player W. Franklin George.
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POSSUM UP A SIMMON TREE [1]. AKA and see “Kitty Puss,” "Puncheon Camp(s)," "Sally Ann the Gal I Like." 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)."

Buddy Thomas (1934-1974)

On his field recording Thomas is hear reciting:

Possum up a simmon tree,
One eye shining down on me;
that possum in the eye.

See also cognate tunes "Little Sally Ann" and "Sally Ann the Gal I Like" from Pike County, Ky., fiddler Owen "Snake" Chapman, and "Nancy Anne" from West Virginia fiddler and banjo player W. Franklin George.

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]
Hear Buddy Thomas's 1974 recording on youtube.com [3] and at Slippery Hill [4]
See Lisa Ornstein's standard notation transcription [5]




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