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"Hickity Crackity", also known as "Baltimore", "Cacina", "Cassino", "French March",
"French Quickstep" or "Cacinameronian's Rant" is a traditional British-Canadian-American
folk song (jig) in G Major. The parts are played AB.
Bayard (1981) states that this is primarily a fife tune usually known by the children's ditty "Oats, Peas, Beans and Barley Grow" (or, sometimes in south western Pennsylvania, "Green Grow the Rushes O"). Bayard couldn't find this tune much among fiddlers but found that it was popular among fifers. It was printed in Bayard's Dance to the Fiddle (1981). He lists numerous previous printed sources including the earliest printed source that he could find - Aird's A Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, Volume I (1778) (listed as "Cacinameronian's Rant"). |