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"Susan Lick the Ladle", also known as "Darkey Under the Woodpile", "O Little Girl what
Makes You Look So Clever" or "Girl that Looks So Clever O!" is an American reel in
4/4 time and G Major. The parts are played AABB.
Bayard was convinced of the tunes apparent 'Scottishness' but was unable to trace the melody to old country collections. He does note "some faint general likeness" to the Scottish "The Irish Hautboy". The title compares with the Scottish tune name "Lick the Ladle, Sandy", but there is no musical resemblance. The sources for the notated version was Frank Lowry, a fiddler from Fayette County, Pa. in 1944, Samuel Losch, a fiddler from Juniata County, Pa. in the 1930's and George Strosnider, an elderly fiddler from Greene County, Pa. in 1928). It was printed in Bayard's Dance to the Fiddle (1981). |