X:1
T: Fare You Well My Susan
T:Frog in the Millpond [1]
N:A dance tune and song from the singing of Dains, collected by
N:Samuel Bayard in the 1930's
M:4/4
L:1/8
B:Bayard - Dance to the Fiddle, March to the Fife (1981, No. 71)
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:G
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FARE YOU WELL MY SUSAN. AKA and see "Frog in the Millpond (1)." American, Song and 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.
Additional notes Source for notated version : - James Dains (Greene County, Pa., 1930's) [Bayard].
Printed sources : - Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 71, p. 48.
