Katie With The Buckles On (Bayard)

Katie With The Buckles On

Katie With Her Buckles On

American, Reel. USA, southwestern Pa.

ARTIST: From Bayard: Hiram White (elderly fiddler from Greene County, Pa., 1930's) [Bayard]. Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 7, pg. 19.

CATEGORY: Fiddle and Instrumental Tunes

DATE: Collected in 1930's.

SOURCES: Kuntz; Bayard

NOTES:  F Major. Standard tuning. AB. This rhyme was collected with the tune in Pennsylvania:

Long folks, short folks, have ye heard the news?
I'm goin' to marry Katie with the buckles on her shoes.
Ha! Ho! Never could refuse‑‑


I'm goin' to marry Katie with the buckles on her shoes.