Annotation:Puncheon Camps
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PUNCHEON CAMP(S). AKA and see "Possum up a Simmon Tree (1)," "Kitty Puss," "Tucker's Old Barn," "Old Time Mockingbird." Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, eastern Ky. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. The third strain is irregular in Kentucky fiddle and banjo player Clyde Davenport's version, which is the same tune as Buddy Thomas's (eastern Ky.) "Possum Up a Simmon Tree (1)."
Source for notated version: Clyde Davenport (Monticello, Ky.) [Phillips].
Printed sources: Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1), 1994; p. 190.
Recorded sources: Venerable Records, Andy Cahan - "Hits From the Mountains." Appalachian Center Ser. AC002, Clyde Davenport, Clyde - "Puncheon Camps" (1992).