Lyr Req: Good Ole Cider / Good Old Cider

Subject: Lyr Req: Good Ole Cider / Good Old Cider
From: GLoux
Date: 07 Sep 04 - 09:49 AM

Can someone post the lyrics to the old-time song/tune Good Old Cider?

-Greg

Subject: Lyr Add: PADDY WON'T YOU DRINK SOME GOOD OLD CIDER
From: GLoux
Date: 07 Sep 04 - 10:37 AM

Here are the lyrics to

PADDY WON'T YOU DRINK SOME GOOD OLD CIDER

Paddy won't you drink some, Paddy won't you drink some
Paddy won't you drink some good old cider
Paddy won't you drink some, Paddy won't you drink some
Paddy won't you drink some good old cider

You be the horse and I'll be the rider
Down to the still house to get some cider
Paddy won't you drink some, Paddy won't you drink some
Paddy won't you drink some good old cider


As performed by Big Hoedown on Rounder CD 0421.
They attribute the tune and lyrics to the Jimmy Johnson String Band of Kentucky.

Greg

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Good Ole Cider / Good Old Cider
From: masato sakurai
Date: 07 Sep 04 - 11:41 AM

"Paddy Won't You Drink Some Cider" : Riley Puckett & Clayton McMichen (audio) is at Honkingduck.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Good Ole Cider / Good Old Cider
From: GLoux
Date: 07 Sep 04 - 03:08 PM

There are two more verses in Riley's and Clayton's version...interesting.

-Greg

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Good Ole Cider / Good Old Cider
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 07 Sep 04 - 04:15 PM

Also done by the Red Clay Ramblers, Gid Tanner-Skillet Lickers and Reeltime Travelers.
A folk version in the Wolf Collection.
In the Traditional Ballad Index as "Sweet Cider," 1923, BrownIII, Roud 7864.

Subject: Lyr Add: PADDY, WON'T YOU DRINK SOME CIDER?
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 08 Sep 04 - 11:52 PM

Transcribed from Honking Duck:

PADDY, WON'T YOU DRINK SOME CIDER?
As performed by Riley Puckett & Clayton McMichen, 1929

You be the horse and I'll be the rider.
Go to Betty Watson's and get some cider.
Paddy, won't you drink some, Paddy, won't you drink some,
Paddy, won't you drink some good old cider?

Got a little cider last night, a little night before, sir.
Going back tomorrow night and get a little more, sir.
Paddy, won't you drink some, Paddy, won't you drink some,
Paddy, won't you drink some good old cider?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Good Ole Cider / Good Old Cider
From: GUEST,Bob Coltman
Date: 12 Jul 06 - 01:56 PM

Following up on Q's note, here's the Wolf Collection version. No tune given; not easy to fit this scansion to the Puckett-McMichen "standard" tune. Got a feeling this, like "Pretty Little Widow" and some others, is a song that originally had a good many more verses, but has lost all but a few.

Chances are the Wolf tune must have varied quite a bit:

Well, I sent my son John out one day
For to hunt the old gray mare-o,
And he was gone, and he was gone-o.
Well, I got uneasy about my son John-o,
And where do you reckon I found my son John?
A-sitting way down yonder on an old holler log,
A-picking on an old . . . banjo,
And the tune went:

Sody, sody, Paddy, won't you drink some,
Paddy, won't you drink some,
Paddy, won't you drink some
Good old cider.
Go to Bailey Watts's
And get some cider.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Good Ole Cider / Good Old Cider
From: Goose Gander
Date: 12 Jul 06 - 02:25 PM

Paddy, Won't You Drink Some? Sung by Sara Jo Fendley, from the Wolf Folklore Collection

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Good Ole Cider / Good Old Cider
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 12 Jul 06 - 02:54 PM

Originally a fiddle tune?
The Bluegrass Messengers link "Davy, Davy," "Goin' Down the River," and "Paddy Won't You Drink Some Good Old Cider," and give some lyrics under "Davy, Davy."
www.bluegrassmessengers.com/master/davy.html
Also see Ceolas.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Good Ole Cider / Good Old Cider
From: Goose Gander
Date: 12 Jul 06 - 03:15 PM

Roger Sprung did a nice version of it as Paddy, Won't You Drink Some Cider? on Progressive Bluegrass Vol. 3 on Folkways (which is a very good album by the way).

First sound file courtesy of Smithsonian Global Sound

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Good Ole Cider / Good Old Cider
From: Goose Gander
Date: 12 Jul 06 - 03:22 PM

One more, here's Paddy, Won't You Drink Good Old Some Cider? by Clyde Daveport in Wayne County, Kentucky (5-3-86)
from the Digital Library of Appalachia

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Good Ole Cider / Good Old Cider
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 12 Jul 06 - 06:00 PM

During the campaign for Harrison and Tyler in 1840 (Tippecanoe and Tyler too), song suchas "Good Hard Cider" and "Log Cabin and Cider Candidate" were composed, but seem to have little, if any relationship with the tune "Paddy ....cider."