IRISH TROT [1]. AKA and see "Hyde Park," "I'm Bubbled." English, Country Dance Tune (2/2 time). England, Northumberland. E Minor (Sharp): D Minor (Stanford/Petrie). Standard. One part. The tune was published by Playford in the first edition of his English Dancing Master (1651) and by John Gay, in The Beggar's Opera (1729) {where it appears as "I'm Bubbled"}. Kidson (1922) says it was probably an alternative tune to "The Hide Park Frolic" in Pills to Purge Melancholy, Vol. IV, pg. 138. It is one of the "missing tunes" from William Vickers' 1770 Northumbrian dance tune manuscript. Despite its origins in the 17th century, it appears that in America the dance was not introduced in some areas until the late 19th century. Jim Kimball, a researcher from western New York state, found this reference to it in a diary of one Hod Case, a Bristol, N.Y., fiddler and journalist who kept diaries from about 1868 to 1940. In his entry of October 8, 1878, Case wrote:
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Ike Benson and I played to a dance [at Hank Trafton's] Irish Trot
danced for first time in the state I think. Mrs. Trafton called it.
"Roys wife" an old Scotch ballad is the tune we played.
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Kimball further notes: "Clarence Maher, a fine fiddler from Bergen, N.Y., who recently passed away at the age of 97, remembered playing the Irish Trot for local house parties
from the 1910's into the 30's. His tune was another old Scots tune which in Harding's was just titled 'The Old Highland Fling.'" Source for notated version: "From the 17th edition of The Dancing Master London 1721" [Stanford/Petrie]. Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; pgs. 41 & 60 (the former is a facsimile copy of Playford's Dancing Master version while the latter is a facsimile of Gay's Beggar's Opera printing). Sharp (Country Dance Tunes), 1909/1994; pg. 38. Stanford/Petrie (Complete Collection), 1905; No. 588, pg. 148.
SALLY ANN [3]. Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, Kentucky. G Major (Brody): A Major (Kuntz): D Major (Johnson). Standard. ABB (Johnson): AABB (Brody, Kuntz, Phillips). Related to "Sail Away Ladies" and "Great/Raise Big Taters in Sandy Land". John McCutcheon notes it could easily be called "Scott County's Anthem" and was Beachard Smith's (1911-1981) signature tune. Sources for notated versions: Doc Roberts (east Kentucky) [Brody]; John McCutcheon, Fred Price, Dave Brody (Kuntz); James Chancellor [Phillips].
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Sally's in the garden sifting sand,
Susie's upstairs with the hog-eyed man;
I'm a-goin home with Sally Anne,
I'm a-goin home with Sally Anne.
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Goin' to a weddin'-up Sally Anne,
Great big weddin'-up Sally Anne;
I'm a-goin' home with Sally Anne,
I'm a-goin' home with Sally Anne.
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Did you ever see a muskrat Sally Anne?
Draggin' his slick tail through the sand;
Pick it on the banjo Sally Anne,
I'm a-goin' home with Sally Anne. (Kuntz)
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Sift that meal and save the bran,
I'm going to the wedding with Sally Anne.
Shake that little foot, Sally Anne,
You're a mighty good dancer, Sally Anne. {x2} (Johnson)
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Brody (Fiddler's Fakebook), 1983; pg. 245. Kuntz (Ragged but Right), 1987; pg. 344-345. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), 1994; pg. 208. Conqueror 7766 (78 RPM), Doc Roberts. Davis Unlimited 33015, Doc Roberts- "Classic Fiddle Tunes." Folk Legacy Records FSA-17, Hobart Smith - "America's Greatest Folk Instrumentalist" (appears as 2nd tune of "Banjo Group 1"). Folkways 2355, "Old Time Music at Clarence Ashley's, Vol. 1." Greenhays GR 710, John McCutcheon- "Fine Times at Our House" (1982). Kicking Mule 202, John Burke- "Fancy Pickin' and Plain Singing." Kicking Mule 205, Delaware Water Gap- "From the Rivers of Babylon to the Land of Jazz" (1978).