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BEAR CREEK'S UP/BEAR CREEK/ SALLY GOODEN
Old-Time, Breakdown. Mississippi.
ARTIST: W.E. Claunch;
Listen: Bear Creek's Up
CATEGORY: Fiddle and Instrumental Tunes DATE: Mid 1900’s
RECORDING INFO: Mississippi Department of Archives and History AH-002, W.E. Claunch - "Great Big Yam Potatoes: Anglo-American Fiddle Music from Mississippi" (1985?).
OTHER NAMES: "Bear Creek," "Sally Goodin,""Old Sally Goodin," "Give me Chaw of Tobacco."
SOURCES: Thede (The Fiddle Book), 1967; pg. 108. Collins, W. S.. Fiddle Book, Oak, Bk (1967), p108
NOTES: Bear Creek's Up is a related version of Sally Gooden by W.E. Claunch from the CD- Great Big Yam Potatoes. Claunch sings one verse but additional lyrics could be added from Bear Creek (see Bear Creek) and Sally Gooden (see: Sally Gooden).
William Ernest Claunch was born near Guntown Mississippi in 1894. He lived on family land settled his grandfather, a fiddler born in Nottingham England in the early 1800s. His father James also played the fiddle.
Additional Verses from Thede:
Bear Creek
Bear Creek is up, Bear Creek is muddy,
Can't get across to see my honey.
Bear Creek is up, Bear Creek is swimmin,'
Hell's filled up with Buffalo wimmin.
Notes from Kuntz, Fiddler's Companion, http://www.ceolas.org/tunes/fc): "G Major. Standard. AAB. The source for the tune, W.E. Claunch, also played "Sally Goodin,'" and for him it was a different tune, played in a different key."
Bear Creek is located in Mississippi, Attala Co. 331428N 0892120W. A Bear Creek does flow through Tishomingo County, Mississippi, into the Tennessee River, though it is likely, says Tom Rankin, that the title derives from the lyrics, not the location. Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, G Major. Standard. A regional variant of the well-known "Sally Goodin," with similar lyrics to Thede's "Bear Creek."
BEAR CREEK'S UP- W.E. Claunch
Listen: Bear Creek's Up
[Fiddle]
Bear Creek's up and
Bear Creek's muddy
When a man gets drunk
He can't stand steady.
[Fiddle]
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