Annotation:Homemade Sugar
Tune properties and standard notation
HOMEMADE SUGAR. AKA - "Home Made Sugar and a Puncheon Floor." Old-Time, Breakdown. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The title appears in a list of traditional Ozark Mountain fiddle tunes compiled by musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph, published in 1954. There is a ditty credited to dance band musician and singer Archie Lee, active as a dance musician and as the personality Little Clifford on the Renfro Valley Barn Dance in the 1930's and 1940's. It references Creelsboro, a community in Russell County, Tennessee. While the connection between the ditty and the tune transmitted by Howdy Forrester is unknown, it establishes the 'home-made sugar' and 'puncheon' association in tradition [c.f. William Lynwood Montell, Grassroots Music in the Upper Cumberland, 2006, p. 23].
I went down to Creelsboro town,
Broke my yoke and the tongue fell down;
Do Johnnie Bugger help that fellow,
Do Johnnie Bugger do.
Puncheon Camp and homemade sugar,
Dance all night you curly-headed bugger;
Do Johnnie Bugger,
Do Johnnie Bugger do.
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