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Peach Pickin' Time in Georgia
Old-Time Song attributed to Clayton McMichen; copyrighted by Rodgers 1932
ARTIST: from McMichen & Rodgers.
CATEGORY: Fiddle and Instrumental Tunes DATE: 1932;
RECORDING INFO: Clayton McMichen 1931; Jimmie Rodgers 1932; Jimmie Davis 1937;
Bill Monroe
OTHER NAMES: When It's Peach Pickin' Time in Georgia
SOURCES: Ceolas; Folk Index; Pete Sutherland [Phillips]. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, Vol. 1), 1994; pg. 181. Tradition TLP 1007, Hobart Smith - "Instrumental Music of the Southern Appalachians" (1956). Kenny Baker [Brody]; Bruce Hutton [Kuntz]; Tommy Jackson [Phillips]. Brody (Fiddler's Fakebook), 1983; pg. 238. Kuntz (Ragged but Right), 1987; pg. 203-204. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, Vol. 1), 1994; pg. 204. Cassette C-7625, Wilson Douglas - "Back Porch Symphony." Folkways 2402, Bruce Hutton- "Old Time Music...It's All Around." County 750, Kenn.
NOTES: C Major. The innovative Clayton McMichen was really the first Country swing fiddler and this is his song with the customary co-author credit by Rodgers. It was recorded Aug. 15, 1932 with Clayton McMichen and Slim Bryant in Camden, New Jersey. Rodgers was very sick and McMichen had to administer him shots so Jimmie could make it through the session. The song has become a western swing favorite. This version uses the standard melody and lyrics:
"Peach Pickin' Time in Georgia " from Rodgers:
When it's peach pickin' time in Georgia, Apple pickin' time in Tennessee,
Cotton pickin' time in Missisipi, everybody picks on me.
When it's round up time in Texas, the cowboys make whoopee
and way down in old Alabamy, it's gal Pickin' time to me.
There's the blue grass in old Kentucky, Virginia's where they do swing;
Carolina, now I'm coming to you, coming just to spend the spring;
Arkansas, I hear you calling, I know I'll see you soon;
there is where we will do some pickin' beneath that old Ozark moon.
I've about done my daydreams I hope they don't get me;
I've got a little girl a-waitin' Down in Tennessee.
I know I'm goin' to see her I hope it won't be long--
That's where I'll build a little cabin And call it my mountain home."
When the pickaninnies pick the cotton, that's the time I'll pick the weddin' ring,
We'll go to town to pick a little gown for a wedding in the spring;
Hope the preacher knows his business, I know he can't fool me;
When it's peach pickin' time in Georgia, it's gal pickin time to me.
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