Hog Eye an' a 'Tater
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Hog Eye and a Tater", also known as "Hog Eye", "Hog Eyed Man", "Granny Will Your Dog Bite?",<br> "Fire on the Mountain" or "Boating Up Sandy" is an old-time breakdown known in southwestern<br> Pennsylvania in A Dorian ('A' part) & A Mixolydian or Major ('B' part).<br> The parts are played AB.<br> It is a widespread modal tune and song with several variants and titles in the upland South<br> that shifts between dorian and mixolydian and, in some cases, dipping into major tonality.<br> Researcher Gus Meade found it published under the title “Hog-Eye Jig” as early as 1853 in<br> Septimus Winner’s Winner’s Collection for the Violin. It was first recorded by Crockett’s<br> Kentucky Mountaineers in November 1928.<br> It was collected from Irvin Yaugher Jr. of Mt. Independence, PA on October 19, 1943.<br> He learned it from his great-uncle.<br> Glen Lynn, Virginia, fiddler Henry Reed's version is quite close to the one played by<br> Irvin Yaugher.<br> This is not the melody which accompanies the well known and often recorded sea shanty called<br> "Hog eye" nor is it the playparty song tune with a similar name known farther south (found<br> in Sharp's English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians.<br> The tune is very similar to "Sally in the Garden" which is also known by some of the same<br> aliases as this.<br> In Fayette County, this tune has the following associated rhyme:<br> I went down to Sally's house<br> 'Bout ten o'clock or later;<br> All she had to give to me<br> Was a hog-eye and a 'tater.<br> The rhyme accompanying the set known in Greene County is:<br> As I was going down the street,<br> A pretty little girl I chanced to meet;<br> I stepped right up and kissed her sweet,<br> And asked her for some hog-eye meat.<br> It was printed in Bayard's Hill Country Tunes (1944) and<br> Milliner & Koken's Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes (2011).<br>
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