The Praties are Dug and the Frost is All Over
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Praties Are Dug and the Frost is All Over", also known as "The American Dwarf", "The Frost is<br> All Gone", "The Frost is All Over", "Hey to the Camp", "Lisdoonvarna", "Mist of Clonmel",<br> "On a Monday Morning", "Owl Creek", "Praties in the Bag" or "What would I do if the<br> Kettle Boiled Over?" is an Irish jig also known in America in southwestern Pa. and New York in<br> D Major. The parts are played AABB (Kerr), AABC (Bayard, Cole). The B part (and the C part if<br> present) are reminiscent of the B part of "Gary Owen".<br> The title is taken from the first line of one of several songs written to the tune.<br> "Praties" are potatoes.<br> Bayard (1981) traces this tune's earliest printings back to the country dance tune<br> "The Masque", which appeared with dance directions in Playford's Dancing Master, 7th Edition<br> (1686).<br> "(When) the Praties Are Dug and the Frost Is All Over" and "Hey to the Camp" were later<br> versions. The latter was published by John Young in his Dancing Master, 13th ed. (1707),<br> although they have remained popular for some two hundred years. The melody first appears in<br> Irish collections in the work of George Petrie (1790-1866), who collected it from a County<br> Armagh source in the mid-19th century. Sound recordings begin with the trio of Chicago piper<br> Tom Ennis, fiddler Tom Quigley, and piano player John Muller, who recorded the jig in New York<br> in 1923. The jig was mentioned as having commonly been played at Orange County, New York<br> country dances in the 1930's (Lettie Osborn, New York Folklore Quarterly). Cape Breton fiddler<br> Colin Boyd recorded the tune as "Rafferty's Jig". <br> It was printed in Bayard's Dance to the Fiddle (1981) (appears as an untitled "Cotillion"),<br> Cole's 1000 Fiddle Tunes (1940),<br> Haverty's One Hundred Irish Airs vol. 2 (1858),<br> Kerr's Merry Melodies, vol. 2 (c. 1880’s),<br> R.M. Levey's First Collection of the Dance Music of Ireland (1858) and<br> Ryan’s Mammoth Collection (1883). <br> It was recorded by Frankie Gavin on Fierce Traditional (2001).<br>
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