Johnny Get Your Hair Cut
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Johnny Get Your Hair Cut", also known as "Granny Will Your Dog Bite?",<br> "Chippy Get Your Hair Cut" or "Gippy Get Your Hair Cut" is an American reel in<br> D Major.<br> The parts are played AABC.<br> Samuel Bayard (1944) reported that the first part<br> of this tune (unaccompanied by any other strain) was sung in southwestern<br> Pennsylvania to the ditties:<br> Johnny get your hair cut, hair cut, hair cut,<br> Johnny get your hair cut, just like me!<br> and<br> Granny will your dog bite, dog bite, dog bite,<br> Granny will your dog bite, no, child, no!<br> In Pennsylvania a playparty song was also sung to the first melodic strain.<br> This is the only version known to the Bayard which is furnished with a third part.<br> In his opinion "It will be noticed that the third section appears to be more modern<br> than the others, and is distinctly inferior--something which can frequently be<br> observed in extra sections arbitrarily tacked onto traditional instrumental airs."<br> It was collected from Sarah Armstrong in Derry PA in 1943 by Samuel Bayard.<br> Mrs. Armstrong was rather proud of knowing a set containing three parts instead of<br> the normal two.<br> Some Appalachian fiddlers believe "Johnny Get Your Hair Cut" and "Granny Will Your<br> Dog Bite" are different tunes. Bayard documents two different tunes called<br> "Granny Will Your Dog Bite?" in "Dance to the Fiddle" (1981).<br> It was printed in Bayard's Hill Country Tunes (1944) and<br> Sandburg's The American Songbag (1927)(first part with jingle).<br> <br>
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