Blackeyed Suzie
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
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Lyrics:
I may get drunk, I may get woozy
But I'm comin' home to Black eyed Susie.
Black eyed Susie lives in a holler
She won't come and I won't call her.
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Hey, Black eyed Susie
Ho Black eyed Susie
Hey, Black eyed Susie, Hey.
All I need to make me happy
Two little boys to call me Pappy.
One named Bill and the other named Davy
Like their biscuits sopped in gravy.
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All I need in this creation's
A pretty little wife and a big plantation.
Black eyed Susie's long and tall
Sleeps in the kitchen with her feet in the hall.
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"Black Eyed Susie", also known as "Hop Up Kitty Puss", "Kitty Puss", "Possum Up a Simmon<br> Tree", "Puncheon Camp" or "Puncheon Camps" is an American air and reel in D Major<br> (most versions) or G Major (Newcomer). It is played in standard or GDad fiddle tunings.<br> The parts are played AB (Christeson, Krassen/1983, Silberberg), AABB (Brody, Krassen /1973)<br> or AA'BB' (Phillips).<br> New Lost City Ramblers (1964) note: "One of the most popular breakdown tunes widespread<br> throughout the South and Southwest in both song and instrumental versions."<br> Bayard (1981) traces the history of the tune, beginning in the British Isles with a<br> melody called "Rosasolis", set by Giles Farnaby (c. 1560–c.1600), which appears in<br> the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book. Another version of the melody is called "Morris Off" and<br> appears in Jehan Tabourot's Orchesographie (1588); it is still used for English morris<br> dances and has been called the earliest recorded morris tune. Still another version<br> appears as an old Welsh harp tune in Alawon Fy Ngwlad (Lays of My Land). Later<br> developments of the tune were popular in England and Scotland from the early 17th<br> century through the 18th, under the title "Three Jolly Sheep Skins"<br> while in Ireland a variation became known as "Aillilliu mo Mhailin" (Alas my little bag).<br> Musicologist Vance Randolph collected and recorded the breakdown in the early 1940's<br> for the Library of Congress from Ozarks Mountains fiddlers and it was similarly waxed<br> in 1939 from the playing of Tishomingo County, Mississippi, fiddler John Hatcher for<br> the same institution. A fiddler from Texas, Elmo Newcomer of near Pipe Creek, was<br> recorded by John and Ruby Lomax in 1939, playing the tune in GDad tuning.<br> This is one of those fiddle tunes with words sometimes sung to keep the band from getting<br> bored playing many repetitions until the dance is done.<br> It was printed in Bayard's Dance to the Fiddle (1981),<br> Brody's Fiddler's Fakebook (1983),<br> Christeson's Old Time Fiddler's Repertory, vol. 1 (1973),<br> Krassen's Masters of Old-Time Fiddling (1983),<br> Krassen's Appalachian Fiddle (1973),<br> Kuntz's Ragged but Right (1986),<br> Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1 (1994),<br> Silberberg's Fiddle Tunes I Learned at the Tractor Tavern (2002),<br> Titon's Old Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes (2001) and<br> Thomas & Leeder's The Singin' Gatherin' (1939).<br> It was recorded by<br> Clyde Davenport on Puncheon Camps (1992),<br> John Hilt on Swope's Knobs,<br> Brad Leftwich, Bruce Molsky et al on Mountairy.USA (2001),<br> Lowe Stokes (1928),<br> Lily May Ledford on The Coon Creek Girls (1968),<br> Cockerham, Jarrell, and Jenkins on Down to the Cider Mill,<br> Kirk Sutphin on Old Roots and New Branches (1994),<br> Doc Roberts on Classic Fiddle Tunes and on Fiddlin' Doc Roberts (1999),<br> The Hill Billies on The Hill Billies/Al Hopkins and His Buckle Busters: Complete Recorded<br> Works in Chronological Order, vol. 2 (reissue),<br> New Lost City Ramblers on String Band Instrumentals (1964),<br> Doc Roberts & John Booker (1927),<br> Elmo Newcomer (1939),<br> Rafe Stefanini on Old Time Friends (1987),<br> Jim Bowles on Railroading Through the Rocky Mountains (1992),<br> Whitter's Virginia Breakdowners (Henry Whitter, John Rector, James Sutphin),<br> Buddy Thomas on Kitty Puss: Old Time Fiddle Music From Kentucky,<br> John W. Summers on Indiana Fiddler (1984),<br> J.P. Nestor and Edmonds (1927) and<br> Jilson Setters (as Blind Bill Day) (1928).<br>
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