Paddy won't You Drink some Good Old Cider
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Paddy Won't You Drink Some Cider", also known as "Paddy Won't You Drink Some Good Old Cider",<br> "Davy Davy", "Drink more Cider", "Sailing Down the River" or "Old Grey Goose"is an American<br> reel in cut or 2/4 time and D Major (most versions) or C Major (Bailey). It is<br> played in standard or ADae tuning (fiddle). The parts are played ABB (Hensley/Beisswenger &<br> McCann) or AABB (most versions).<br> The title appears in a list of traditional Ozarks Mountains fiddle tunes compiled by<br> musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph, published in 1954. The Frank Brown Collection<br> (vol. III) gives a North Carolina version (substituting ‘Sallie’ instead of ‘Paddy’)<br> and links it to the titles “Sweet Cider” and “Pretty Little Black-Eyed Susan”.<br> Arkansas fiddler and violin maker Violet Hensley’s version is crooked in the second strain.<br> Early (78 RPM) recordings were by the eastern Kentucky group The Jimmy Johnson String Band<br> (1932, featuring fiddler Andy Palmer (1881-1939),<br> G.B. Grayson & Henry Whitter (1927), Arthur Tanner (1930) and J.E. Mainer (1938).<br> Lyrics sometimes sung to the tune:<br> <br> Paddy won't you drink some,<br> Paddy won't you drink some,<br> Paddy won't you drink some good ole cider.<br> <br> Had a little cider last night<br> A little night before, sir,<br> Going out tomorrow night to get a little more, sir.<br> <br> You be the horse,<br> And I'll be the rider,<br> Going to Paddy Watson's to get a little cider.<br> <br> It was printed in<br> Beisswenger & McCann's Ozarks Fiddle Music (2008),<br> Brody's Fiddler’s Fakebook (1983),<br> Ford's Traditional Music in America (1940),<br> Kuntz's Ragged But Right (1987),<br> Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1 (1994) and<br> Thede's The Fiddle Book (1967).<br> It was recorded by<br> Jimmy Johnson's String Band (1932),<br> Clayton McMichen with Riley Puckett (1929),<br> The Red Clay Ramblers on Chuckin' the Frizz (1979),<br> Roger Sprung on Roger Sprung Plays Progressive Bluegrass, vol. 3 (1965),<br> Gid Tanner and His Skillet Lickers on The Kickapoo Medicine Show (1928),<br> Bruce Molsky on Big Hoedown (1997),<br> Pete Sutherland on An Anthology and<br> Jimmy Johnson String Band on Kentucky Mountain Music vol. 5 (2003). <br>
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