Annotation:Kitty Puss (2)
X:1 T:Kitty Puss [2] M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Reel B:Stephen F. Davis - Devil's Box, vol. 23, No. 4, Winter 1989 (p. 31) N:Transcribed by John Hartford from the playing of Charlie N:Acuff (1919-2013, Union County, Tennessee), who learned it from N:his grandfather. N:The tune is 11.5 bars long. Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:D A/c/|:dd/d/ c>c|dd e>e|fa ge|d/B/A/G/ Gg/e/| [M:2/8] d/c/B/G/|[M:2/4]GG/G/ EE/F/|GG A/B/A/G/|FF DD/E/| A/B/A/F/ |GG E>F|GG B/G/A/G/|FF D>D:|
KITTY PUSS [2]. American, Reel (2/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. "Kitty Puss [2]" is from the playing of Union Couny, Tennessee, fiddler Charlie Acuff (1919-2013), who learned it from his grandfather along with a similarly titled (but musically different) tune "Poor Little Kitty Puss Poor Little Feller." John Hartford, who transcribed the tune from Acuff, remarked that fiddler Howdy Forrester (who did not have the tunes in his repertoire) said there was an old saying in Hickman County, Tennessee, that "If you can't dance Kitty Puss you can't dance nothin'."
