Drunken Hiccoughs
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Drunken Hiccoughs", also known as "Drunken Hiccups" or "The Oil City Quickstep",<br> is an American country dance tune (4/4 time) known in Western Pa. in G Major.<br> The parts are played AB. Both parts have 16 measures with the A part seeming to have<br> two 6 measure strains connected by two slow measures.<br> Bayard's note:<br> "This tune is also quite popular in Fayette County (Pa.). Its variants show<br> little change. The title is one of the 'floating' variety, being mentioned in Odum,<br> 'An American Epoch', p. 202, and Carmer, 'Stars Fell on Alabama', p. 276; and found<br> in connection with a quite different air in Ford, p. 126. The tune's usual title in<br> Pennsylvania is 'The Oil City Quickstep'."<br> This tune is usually referred to as a "country dance tune" but it sounds like a<br> polka to me and I have classified it as such.<br> There is a slight resemblance of the A part of this tune to "Liberty" but "Liberty"<br> doesn't have the two octave range that "Drunken Hiccoughs" does.<br> It was collected from Sarah Armstrong in Derry PA on November 18th, 1943 by<br> Samuel Bayard.<br> It was printed in Bayard's Hill Country Tunes (1944).<br>
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