Annotation:Creek's All Muddy and the Pond's All Dry (The)

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X:1 T:Creek's all Muddy, Pond's all Dry M:2/2 L:1/8 S:Thomas Jefferson "Duck" Wootan (1882-1864, Kimble County, central Texas) N:From a 1958 home recording by Tim Wooten N:GDgd tuning (fiddle) F:https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/creeks-all-muddy-ponds-all-dry Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:G [G,2D2]e2d2ed|Bded d3d|dedB A2G2 |EGGA G2 ((3GFE)| [G,2D2]e2d2ed|Bded d4|dedB A2G2 |EGGA G4|| |:[D2_B2][DB]G A2 GA|[D_B]A[DB]A G2 AG|[D_B]ABA BdBG|EGGA G4:|

CREEK'S ALL MUDDY AND THE POND'S ALL DRY. American, Reel (cut time). USA, West Virginia. The name of a fiddle tune in the repertoire of Pocahontas County, West Virginia, fiddler Burl Hammons. The title comes from a line in the third verse of a folk song called "Bird Song," which McNeil claims is derived from the Child ballad (No. 26) "The Three Ravens," first published in 1611. The verse goes:

Well, said the shitepoke to the crow,
Now, don't you wish that it would snow;
The creek's all muddy and the pond's all dry,
If it wasn't for the tadpoles, we'd all die.

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Recorded sources: -AHR-017, "The Fiddling of Burl Hammons."

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