Cluck Old Hen (3)

CLUCK OLD HEN [3]. AKA and see "Old Aunt Katie [3]." American, Reel. USA, southwestern Pa. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. In this case the "Cluck Old Hen" title is a floating one, attached to a piece of Scottish origin usually called in southwestern Pa. "Old Aunt Katie." It was collected in the region with a rhyme not dissimilar to the usual "Cluck Old Hen" ditties:

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)

The melody (in song and dance airs), finds Samuel Bayard (1981), is descended from the Scots tunes "Marquis of Hastings' Strathspey," "Lord Moira('s Welcome)" and "Loudon's Bonnie Woods and Braes." See also Frank Roche's Irish-collected fling "Bonnie Scotland (1)."

Source for notated version: middle-aged fiddler Walter Neal (Armstrong County, Pa., 1952) [Bayard].

Printed source: Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 284, p. 237.

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T:Cluck Old Hen [3]
M:2/4
L:1/8
S:Walter Neal (southwestern Pa., 1952)
K:G
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