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Ducks In the Pond/ Ducks On The Millpond
Traditional Old-Time Breakdown- North Carolina- Mt. Airy, Virginia-Grayson County,
ARTIST: Alan Lomax collected the tune in 1939.
Listen: Emmett Lundy; Ducks On The Millpond
Mrs. Griffin- [fiddle tune: Ducks in the Millpond]
Listen: http://memory.loc.gov/afc/afcss39/270/2705b3.mp3
CATEGORY: Fiddle and Instrumental Tunes; DATE: 1937;
RECORDING INFO: Phillips/Sutphin, Hollow Rock String Band. County 748, Tommy Jarrell- "Come and Go with Me." Rounder 0035, Fuzzy Mountain String Band- "Summer Oaks and Porch" (1973. Learned from Tommy Jarrell, Mt. Airy, N.C.). Creed, Kyle. Clawhammer Banjo, County 701, LP (1965), cut# 4; Fuzzy Mountain String Band. Summer Oaks and Porch, Rounder 0035, LP (197?), cut# 14a; Iron Mountain String Band (Galax). Music from the Mountain, Heritage (Galax) 101C, Cas (1992), cut# 9; Jarrell, Tommy. Come and Go With Me, County 748, LP (1974), cut# 2; Lundy, Emmett. Round the Heart of Old Galax, Vol 3., County 535, LP (1980), cut# 4; Lundy, Emmett. Fiddle Tunes from Grayson County, String 802, LP (1977), cut# 14; Melton, Isaac. Old Five String, Vol 2, Heritage (Galax) 052, Cas (1991), cut# 14; Rutherford, Ernest; and the Gold Hill Band. Old Cap'n Rabbit, Heritage (Galax) 080, Cas (1989), cut# 1;
OTHER NAMES: "Deaf Woman's Courtship."
SOURCES: Fuzzy Mountain String Band (N.C.) [Brody]; Emmett Lundy (Galax, Va.) b. 1864 who had the tune from legendary Grayson County fiddler Greenberry Leonard [Krassen, Phillips]; Kirk Sutphin [Phillips]. Brody (Fiddler's Fakebook), 1983; pg. 93. Krassen (Appalachian Fiddle), 1983; pg. 31-32. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), Vol. 1, 1994; pg. 76 (two versions). Spandaro (10 Cents a Dance), 1980; pg. 19; Kuntz, Fiddler's Companion, http://www.ceolas.org/tunes/fc;
NOTES: Collected by Alan Lomax from Field's Ward (Wade Ward's father) in 1937.
Kuntz: "Old-Time, Breakdown found in southwest Va. (Grayson County), Mt. Airy, N.C. D Major. ADAE tuning. AABB; AA'BB'. Not related to “Ducks on the Pond.” According to Lomax, the tune is related to "Old Dan Tucker." (Kuntz, Fiddler's Companion, http://www.ceolas.org/tunes/fc).
Below is a version by Fields Ward, Galax Area, 1937:
Here’s a version collected by Lomax in 1939:
Ducks in the Pond - Mrs. Griffin- [fiddle tune: Ducks in the Millpond]
Listen: http://memory.loc.gov/afc/afcss39/270/2705b3.mp3
Ho! Lord, the one I go for
Got so drunk that he couldn't turn over.
Ducks in the pond and geese fly over
Gals in the bed and can't turn over.
Betsy was a *baby, Polly was a honey,
Come along, honey, and go to your daddy.
Late in the evening, Peter went a-fishin
He laid down and the boogers come an' got him.
*unclear
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