Hog Eye an' a 'Tater

X: 1 T: 75. HOG EYE AN' A 'TATER B: Sam Bayard, "Hill Country Tunes" 1944 #75 S: Played by Irvin Yaugher Jr, Mt Independence, PA, Oct 19 1943. As played by his great-uncle. N: This is not the melody which accompanies the well known and often recorded sea shanty called N: "Hog eye," nor is it the playparty song tune with a similar name known farther south (see N: Sharp-Karpeles, "English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, II, No.250). A somewhat N: different version, with the parts in reverse order, is in Bayard Coll., No.288, from Greene N: County, where the title is simply "Hog Eye," and has an indecent meaning. N: N: In Fayette County, this tune has the following associated rhyme: N:   I went down to Sally's house N:    'Bout ten o'clock or later; N:    All she had to give to me N:    Was a hog-eye and a 'tater. N: The rhyme accompanying the set known in Greene County is: N:    As I was going down the street, N:    A pretty little girl I chanced to meet; N:    I stepped right up and kissed her sweet, N:    And asked her for some hog-eye meat. N: No other sets of the tune are known to the editor. R: reel M: 4/4 L: 1/8 Z: 2010 John Chambers  F:http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/book/HillCountryTunes/HillCountryTunes.abc	 2011-11-12 013102 UT K: Am A2 |\ ABAG E2AB | c2dB c2G2 | ABAG E2AB | ^/c2A2 A2G2 | ABAG E2AB | c2cA d2d2 | e^fed B2AB | ^/c2A2 A2 || AB | ^/c2B2 c2d2 | e2^f2 e3d | ^c2B2 c2d2 | e2A2 A2AB | ^/c2B2 c2d2 | e2^f2 e3d | ^c2A2 B2zd | ^/c2A2 A2 |]

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