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Annotation:Possum up a Simmon Tree (1)
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POSSUM UP A SIMMON TREE [1]. AKA and see "Nancy Anne,' "Sally Ann the Gal I Like." American, Reel (cut time). USA, Ky. A Mixolydian/Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody has been compared to Clyde Davenport's (Monticello, Ky.) "Puncheon Camps."
On his field recording Thomas is hear reciting:
Possum up a simmon tree,
One eye shining down on me;
that possum in the eye.
See also the close cognate tunes "Little Sally Ann" and "Sally Ann the Gal I Like" from Pike County, Ky., fiddler Owen "Snake" Chapman, and "Nancy Anne" from West Virginia fiddler and banjo player W. Franklin George.
Source for notated version: Buddy Thomas [1] (Emerson, Lewis County, Ky) [Phillips].
Printed sources: Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1), 1994; p 188.
Recorded sources: Field Recorder's Collective FRC303 - "Buddy Thomas." Rounder 0032, Buddy Thomas (northeast Ky.) - "Kitty Puss: Old-Time Fiddle Music From Ky."
See also listing at:
Hear Buddy Thomas's 1974 field recording by Barbara Kunkle at the Digital Library of Appalachia [2]
Hear Buddy Thomas's 1974 recording on youtube.com [3] and at Slippery Hill [4]
See Lisa Ornstein's standard notation transcription [5]
