Old Molly Hare

DESCRIPTION: Fiddle tune with words, often of the form, "Old Molly Hare, What('r) you doin' there?" followed by a reply, e.g. "Sitting in the briarpatch, combing out my hair."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1881 (Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings)
KEYWORDS: animal fiddle nonballad dancetune
FOUND IN: US(SE,So)
REFERENCES (8 citations):
Randolph 277, "Old Molly Hare" (1 short text, 1 tune)
Randolph/Cohen-OzarkFolksongs-Abridged, pp. 238-239, "Old Molly Hare" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 277)
Brown/Belden/Hudson-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore3 167, "Old Molly Hare (Mr. Rabbit)" (2 texts plus 4 fragments, 1 excerpt, and mention of 2 more; the "C," "D," and "E" fragments, plus probably "B," are "Old Molly Hare," "I" is "Mister Rabbit"; "A" and "G" mix the two)
Brown/Schinhan-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore5 167, "Old Molly Hare (Mr. Rabbit)" (1 tune plus a text excerpt)
Lomax/Lomax-AmericanBalladsAndFolkSongs, pp. 283-284, "Old Mother Hare" (1 text, 1 tune)
Cohen/Seeger/Wood-NewLostCityRamblersSongbook, pp. 108-109, "Old Molly Hair" (1 text, 1 tune)
Solomon-ZickaryZan, p. 71, "Mollie Hair" (1 text)
DT, MOLLHARE
Roud #7781
RECORDINGS:
Clayton McMichen & Riley Puckett, "Old Molly Hare" (Columbia 15295-D, 1928; on CrowTold01)
New Lost City Ramblers, "Old Molly Hair" (on NLCR05)
Fiddlin' Powers & Family, "Old Molly Hare" (Okeh 45268, 1928; rec. 1927; on Cornshuckers2, StuffDreams2) )
Riley Puckett, "Old Molly Hair" (Columbia 15295-D, 1928)
NOTES [40 words]: Joel Chandler Harris quoted the first stanza of this song in "Mr. Rabbit Gorssly Decieves Mr. Fox," published in 1881 in Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings:
Ole Molly Har'.
W'at you doin' dar,
Settin' in de cornder
Smokin' yo seegyar? - RBW
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File: R277

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