Annotation:Fare You Well My Susan: Difference between revisions

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FARE YOU WELL MY SUSAN. AKA and see "Frog in the Millpond." Old-Time, Song or Dance Tune (4/4 time). USA, southwestern Pa. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Bayard collected this tune which was used as both a song and dance tune in southwestern Pa. He thinks sounds as if it may have come from the American minstrel tradition, and gives the ditty his source sang to it:

Fare you well, my Susan.
Fare you well, my dear.
Fare you well, my Susan
I'm goin' to leave you here--
Chorus:
Frog in the millpond, hoppadoo, hoppadoo,
Frog in the millpond, hoppadoodle day.
Frog in the millpond settin' on a log,
Devil on the hillside gruntin' like a hog.

Source for notated version: James Dains (Greene County, Pa., 1930's) [Bayard].

Printed sources: Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 71, p. 48.

Recorded sources:

Tune properties and standard notation

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