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Horny Ewe/Horney Ewe
Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, southwestern Pa.
ARTIST: Melvin Wine; lyrics from Gerry Milnes
CATEGORY: Fiddle and Instrumental Tunes DATE: 1800’s
RECORDING INFO: Horny Ewe/Horney Ewe
Carpenter, Ernie. Elk River Blues, Augusta Heritage AHR 003, LP (1986), trk# 5 [1982ca]
Hornio; See: Us - Going Down to Georgie-O
Going Down to Georgie-O [Me IV-D 9]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak3zo1KNok0
Rt - Crow Creek ; Double Shuffle
At - Who'll Take Care of the Baby-O ; Hornio
Rm - Been to the East, Been to the West
Carpenter, Ernie. Elk River Blues, Augusta Heritage AHR 003, LP (1986), trk# 3 [1982ca] (Gunboat)
Dillon, Tom. Fiddler Magazine, Fiddler Mag., Ser, 13/4, p34(2006) [1956] (Gunboat)
Wimmer, Dent. Appalachia, The Old Traditions, Vol. 2, Home Made Music LP-002, LP (1983), trk# B.09 [1979/08/08] (Baby-O)
Wine, Melvin. Cold Frosty Morning, Poplar LPI 40290, LP (1976), trk# 3 [1974/09/01]
Wine, Melvin. Krassen, Miles (ed.) / Masters of Old Time Fiddling, Oak, Sof (1983), p 52
Wine, Melvin. Silberberg, Gene (ed.) / Complete Fiddle Tunes I Either Did or Did Not., Silberberg, Fol (2005), p 66
OTHER NAMES: "Horney-O," "Hornio"
RELATED TO: Crow Creek; Double Shuffle; Going Down to Georgie-O
SOURCES: Granny Will Your Dog Bite: And Other Mountain Rhymes - Page 17
by Gerald Milnes, Kimberly Bulcken Root - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1999 - 45 pages
NOTES: West Virginia dialect uses the old Scottish pronunciation, where ewe rhymes with row. The song's traditional lyrics appear in a recording by Lui Collins:
Plant your corn all in a row
Feed it all to the horney ewe
The horney ewe ain't a very fine sheep
but the rest of the flock is hard to beat.
hey ho John D Hosey!
Gerry Milnes gives these tradtional lyrics:
Plant your corn all in a row
Feed it all to the horney ewe
The horney ewe is a very fine sheep
And the rest of the flock is hard to beat.
Also:
I split my shin and I broke my toe,
An I run a little race with the horny ewe.
Meade lists Melvin Wine's related Going Down to Georgie-O as a version of Been to the East Been to the West by the Leake County Revelers (lyrics derived from a minstrel song, Black Eyed Susianna 1846).
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