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Miss Sally At The Party/Old Miss Sally/I Asked that Pretty Girl to be my Wife
Traditional Old-Time, Breakdown- Oklahoma. Mississippi, Appalachians;
ARTIST: W.E. Claunch
CATEGORY: Fiddle and Instrumental Tunes DATE: Early 1900’s
RECORDING INFO: Pretty Little Girl with a Blue Dress On (Stan Jackson) RDR 0435, Traditional Fiddle Music of the Ozarks, Vol I; Pretty Little Girl with a Blue Dress On- Celtic Mouth Music 1997 Ellipsis Arts.
OTHER NAMES: “Pretty Little Girl with a Blue Dress On,” "Miss Sally at the Party".
SOURCES: Thede (The Fiddle Book), 1967; pg. 86-87. Wiles, Stan. Fiddle Book, Oak, Bk (1967), p 86
NOTES: G Major. Standard tuning W.E. Claunch; Thede's version GDAD. ABBBBBB'. Vocal on repeat of 'A' section. "Miss Sally at the Party" was a regional Mississippi tune also known as "Old Miss Sally" (John Hatcher 1939). The tune appears in Thede with a similar rhyme sung to it:
I Asked that Pretty Girl to Be my Wife- Stan Wiles, Thede
Asked that pretty girl to be my wife,
She wouldn't do it to save my life;
Asked that pretty girl to be my wife,
She run at me with a carving knife.
Miss Sally at the Party- W.E. Claunch
Asked that pretty girl to be my wife,
She stabbed at me with a Bowie knife.
Miss Sally, Miss Sally,
Miss Sally at the party.
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