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PEAS IN THE POT. AKA and see "Piece in the Pot," "Peas in the Pod." Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, Kentucky. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'B. Davenport knew this ditty, sung to the tune (although he played it as an instrumental):

Peas in the pot, hoecake a-bakin',
Step girls step, the day’s a breakin'.

Source for notated version: Clyde Davenport (Monticello, Wayne County, Ky.) [Phillips], learned from his father.

Printed sources: Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1), 1994; p. 182.

Recorded sources: Field Recorders Collective FRC-104, "Clyde Davenport, vol. 2." Clyde Davenport - "Puncheon Camps" (1992).

See also listing:
Hear John Harrod's 1981 field recording of Clyde Davenport playing the tune at Berea Digital Archives [1], and at the Digital Library of Appalachia [2]

See Dave Bartlett's 1986 photograph of Clyde with banjo, front-porch picking [3]



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