Annotation:Fare You Well My Susan

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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]. Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 71, p. 48.

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