Fare You Well My Susan

Fare You Well My Susan

Traditional Old-Time, Song or Dance Tune (4/4 time), Southwestern Pa.

ARTIST: James Dains (Greene County, Pa., 1930's)

CATEGORY: Fiddle and Instrumental Tunes DATE: Early 1930’s

RECORDING INFO:

OTHER NAMES: "Frog in the Millpond."

SOURCES: James Dains (Greene County, Pa., 1930's) [Bayard]. Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 71, pg. 48; Kuntz, Fiddler's Companion, http://www.ceolas.org/tunes/fc;

NOTES: From Kuntz, Fiddler's Companion, http://www.ceolas.org/tunes/fc: G Major. Standard. AAB. Bayard collected this tune which was used as both a song and dance tune in southwestern Pa. He thinks sounds as if it may have come from the American minstrel tradition, and gives the ditty his source sang to it:

LYRICS: 

Fare you well, my Susan.
Fare you well, my dear.
Fare you well, my Susan
I'm goin' to leave you here—

Chorus: Frog in the millpond, hoppadoo, hoppadoo,
Frog in the millpond, hoppadoodle day.
Frog in the millpond settin' on a log,
Devil on the hillside gruntin' like a hog.