- Style
- Old-time
- Tradition
- Virginia and North Carolina old-time
- Form
- Breakdown
- Key
- D
- Level
- 2
- Played on
- Fiddle and Mandolin
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Music
100bpm
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Chord chart
History
The tune goes by many names, among them "Blue Eyed Girl," "Susannah Gal" and "Western Country," and fiddlers sing a pile of floating verses to it. The Hill Billies of Galax, Virginia, recorded it as "Blue-Eyed Girl" in 1926, and the Bogtrotters, also from Galax, recorded it for the Library of Congress.
Another early record came from Frank Blevins and His Tar Heel Rattlers of Ashe County, North Carolina, in 1927. Blevins was 16, and the band's name was made up on the spot at the Columbia session in Atlanta.
Fly around my pretty little miss, Fly around my daisy; Fly around my pretty little miss, You like to drive me crazy. How old are you, my pretty little miss, How old are you, my honey? If I don't die of a broken heart I'll be sixteen next Sunday.