Annotation:Old Aunt Katie (2)

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OLD AUNT KATIE [2]. AKA and see "Cluck Old Hen (3)" (Pa. floating title). Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, southwestern Pa. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The given title as well as the alternate appear to be floating titles. The tune is Scottish in origin, according to Bayard (1981), with a number of titles including "Marquis of Hastings' Strathspey (The)," "Loudon's/Louden's Bonnie Woods (and Braes)," "Lord Moira's Welcome to Scotland," and "Lord Moira." Two lyrics are associated with the tune in Pennsylvania:

Old Aunt Katie, good enough for anybody,
Old Aunt Katie, good enough at all;
Old Aunt Katie, good enough for anybody,
Take 'er in her old clothes, or don't take her at all.
And:
Cluck old hen, cluck right along;
Cluck old hen, till your chickens rolls on;
Cluck old hen, and I don't give a damn--
I can git a woman if you can git a man. .... (Bayard)

Sources for notated versions: Irvin Yaugher (Fayette County, Pa., 1944), Walter Neal (Armstrong County, Pa., 1952) [Bayard].

Printed sources: Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 284A-B, p. 237.

Recorded sources:

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