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Paddy Won't You Drink Some Good Old Cider
Traditional Old-Time Song; Breakdown. USA; North Georgia, Kentucky, Arkansas, Oklahoma.
ARTIST: Skillet Lickers
CATEGORY: Fiddle and Instrumental Tunes
DATE: 1923 Brown Collection;
RECORDING INFO: Deseret String Band. Utah Trail, Okehdokee --, LP (197?), trk# 3 (Cider Mill) Red Clay Ramblers. Chuckin' the Frizz, Flying Fish FF 089, LP (1979), trk# B.06 Reeltime Travelers. Livin' Reeltime, Thinkin' Old-Time, Yodel-Ay-Hee 042, CD (2002), trk# 1 Puckett, Riley; & Clayton McMichen. Ballads and Breakdowns of the Golden Era, Columbia CS 9660, LP (1968), trk# A.02 [1928/10/26] Sprung, Roger; & his Progressive Bluegrassers. Progressive Bluegrass, Vol. 3, Folkways FA 2372, LP (1964), trk# B.06 Molsky, Bruce; and Big Hoedown. Bruce Molsky and Big Hoedown, Rounder 0421, CD (1997), trk# 9
RELATED TO: Cider Mill; Black-Eyed Susie/Susan; Still House
OTHER NAMES: Down to the Still House to Get a Little Cider
SOURCES: Ford, Ira W. / Traditional Music in America, Folklore Associates, Bk (1965/1940), p 41a; Carlin, Bob. Brody, David (ed.) / Banjo Picker's Fakebook, Oak, Fol (1985), p117b; Hicks, Ed. Thede, Marion (ed.) / The Fiddle Book, Oak, Bk (1967), p 53b [1930s]; Skillet Lickers. Brody, David (ed.) / Fiddler's Fakebook, Oak, Sof (1983), p215 The Skillet Lickers (Atlanta, Georgia) [Kuntz]; Ed Hicks (Adair County, Oklahoma) [Thede]; Harvey Taylor [Phillips]. Brody (Fiddler’s Fakebook), 1983; pg. 215. Ford (Traditional Music in America), 1940; pg. 41. Kuntz (Ragged But Right), 1987; pg. 331-332. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), vol. 1, 1994; pg. 180. Thede (The Fiddle Book), 1967; pg. 53. Also appears in Ira Ford's book. Flying Fish 089, The Red Clay Ramblers, "Chuckin' the Frizz" (1979. Learned from "Lowe Stokes et. al.). Rounder 1023, Gid Tanner and His Skillet Lickers (North Ga., 1928) "The Kickapoo Medicine Show." Rounder CD0421, Bruce Molsky - “Big Hoedown” (1997). Tennvale 004, Pete Sutherland, "An Anthology."
NOTES: The title appears in a list of traditional Ozark Mountain fiddle tunes compiled by musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph, published in 1954. It was recorded by the eastern Kentucky group The Jimmy Johnson String Band, featuring fiddler Andy Palmer (b. 1881, Anderson County, Kentucky).
Here is a version from 1923 from "The Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore; the folklore of North Carolina, collected by Dr. Frank C. Brown during the years 1912 to 1943, in collaboration with the North Carolina Folklore Society"
45 Sweet Cider
Apparently a fragment of the song reported from Tennessee (ETWVMB 86, SSSA 184) as 'Pretty Little Black-Eyed Susan.' Ford, Traditional Music of America 41, gives it as a square-dance song, with "Paddy" in place of "Sallie." Most likely a product, originally, of the music-hall, it has lived in memory here and there in the Southern mountains.
'Sweet Cider.' Contributed by Clara Hearne of Pittsboro, Chatham county, in 1923.
Where's the mule and where's the rider?
Where's the gal that drinks sweet cider?
Refrain:
*Sallie, won't you have some,
Sallie, won't you have some,
Sallie, won't you have some of my hard cider?
*Paddy
Paddy Won't You Drink Some Good Ole Cider- Skillet Lickers
(Fiddle)
You be the horse,
And I'll be the rider,
Going to Paddy Watson's to get some cider.
Paddy won't you drink some,
Paddy won't you drink some,
Paddy won't you drink some good ole cider.
(Fiddle)
Had a little cider last night
A little night before, sir,
Going out tomorrow night to get a little more, sir.
Paddy won't you drink some,
Paddy won't you drink some,
Paddy won't you drink some good ole cider.
(Fiddle)
You be the horse, And I'll be the rider,
Going to Paddy Watson's to get some cider.
Paddy won't you drink some,
Paddy won't you drink some,
Paddy won't you drink some good ole cider.
(Fiddle)
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