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MISS SALLY AT THE PARTY AKA and see "I Asked that Pretty Girl to Be My Wife," "Old Miss Sally," "Pretty Little Girl with a Blue Dress On." Old Timey, Breakdown. USA, Mississippi. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The source for the tune, W.E. Claunch (1894-1958), recorded in 1939 for the Library of Congress, learned the tune from his father, James Claunch. Tom Rankin (1985) believes the tune to be a regional north-eastern Mississippi tune played by several fiddlers there, but only found in one other source an Oklahoma fiddler in Marion Thede's fiddle book (under the title "I Asked that Pretty Girl to Be My Wife").

I asked Miss Sally to be my wife,
She stabbed at me with a Bowie knife,
Miss Sally, Miss Sally,
Miss Sally at the party.

Stan Jackson's "Pretty Little Girl with the Blue Dress On (2)" is a related tune.

Source for notated version: W.E. Claunch (1894 1958) {Guntown, Mississippi} [Notes for "Great Big Yam Potatoes"].

Printed sources: Rankin, 1985; Notes for "Great Big Yam Potatoes: Anglo American Fiddle Music from Mississippi."

Recorded sources: Mississippi Department of Archives and History AH 002, W.E. Claunch "Great Big Yam Potatoes: Anglo American Fiddle Music from Mississippi" (1985).