Fly Around my Pretty Little Miss- Skillet Lickers (GA) 1928
[From the Columbia recording 15709-D made October, 1928 in Atlanta, Georgia. This was a duo fiddle version with six stanzas and a floating chorus was made by the Atlanta, Georgia string band, The Skillet Lickers with Riley Puckett on guitar and vocals along with a Clayton McMichen and Gid Tanner on fiddle.
The Skillet Lickers still sang the old Scottish influenced chorus with "Fare you well my pretty little miss" while adding a number of different floating stanzas.
R. Matteson 2018]
FLY AROUND MY PRETTY LITTLE MISS
Put that meat all under the bed
Yonder comes the owner
Sold my hog and bought me a mule
Ain't gonna pray no more.
Eighteen pounds of meat a week
Whisky in a still;
How can the young men stay at home
When the girls all look so well.
Fare you well my pretty little miss
Fare you well my honey
If I'm not there by the middle of the week
You can look for me on Sunday
Jaybird died with the whooping cough
Sparrow died with the colic
Long came a red bird fiddle on his back
Wind along girls to the frolic.
Eighteen pounds of meat a week
Whisky in a still
How can the young men stay at home
When the girls all look so well
Put that meat all under the bed
Yonder comes the owner
Sold my hog and bought me a mule
Ain't gonna pray no more
Fare you well my pretty little miss
Fare you well my honey
If I'm not there by the middle of the week
You can look for me on Sunday
Eighteen pounds of meat a week
Whisky in a still
How can the young men stay at home
When the girls all look so well
Spoken: Court 'em, boys, court 'em.