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Hog-Eye and a Tater
Old-Time, Breakdown- USA, southwestern Pennsylvania.
ARTIST: Irvin Yaugher Jr., Mt. Independence, Pennsylvania, October 19, 1943 (learned from his great-uncle).
CATEGORY: Fiddle and Instrumental Tunes DATE: Early 1900’s
HOG EYE RECORDING INFO: Arkansas Sheiks. Whiskey Before Breakfast, Bay 204, LP (1975), cut# 14. New Lost City Ramblers. New Lost City Ramblers, Vol. 3, Folkways FA 2398, LP (1961), cut# 18 (Hogeye). Pope's Arkansas Mountaineers. Echoes of the Ozarks, Vol. 1, County 518, LP (1977), cut# 9. Southern Michigan String Band. Transplanted Old Timy Music, Pine Tree PTSLP 509, LP (197?), cut# 2. Hog-Eyed Man -Hollow Rock String Band. Traditional Dance Tunes, Kanawha 311, LP (197?), cut# 6. Strong, Luther. American Fiddle Tunes, Library of Congress AFS L62, LP (1971), cut# 19. Sumner, Marion. Best of Seedtime on the Cumberland, June Appal JA 0059C, Cas (198?), cut# 10.
OTHER NAMES: "Hog Eye('d Man)" [2], "Granny Will Your Dog Bite" (Pa. floating title), "Fire on the Mountain" (Pa. floating title), "Boatin Up Sandy."
SOURCES: (Bayard, 1944). Irvin Yaugher Jr., Mt. Independence, Pennsylvania, October 19, 1943 (learned from his great-uncle). Bayard (Hill Country Tunes), 1944; No. 75; Kuntz, Fiddler's Companion, http://www.ceolas.org/tunes/fc).
NOTES: From Kuntz, Fiddler's Companion, http://www.ceolas.org/tunes/fc: A Dorian ('A' part) & A Major ('B' part). Standard. AB. Related to "Hog Eye" [1]. "This is not the melody which accompanies the well known and often recorded sea shanty called 'Hog Eye', nor is it the playparty song tune with a similar name known farther south (see Sharp-Karpeles, English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, II, No. 250). A somewhat different version, with the parts in reverse order, is in Bayard Coll., No. 288, from Greene County, where the title is simply 'Hog Eye', and has an indecent meaning. In Fayette County, this tune has the following associated rhyme:
LYRICS:
I went down to Sally's house
'Bout ten o'clock or later;
All she had to give to me
Was a hog-eye and a tater.
The rhyme accompanying the set known in Greene County is:
As I was going down the street,
A pretty little girl I chanced to meet;
I stepped right up and kissed her sweet,
And asked her for some hog-eye meat.
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