“Sugar Hill”

Description

Dance tune; "If you want to get your eye knocked out/If you want to get your fill/If you want to get your head blowed off/Go up on Sugar Hill". Other floating verses; "Possum up a 'simmon tree."

Notes

"Sugar Hill" is the wild part of town. - PJS

Recordings

• Frank Bode, "Sugar Hill" (on FBode1)
• Dad Crockett, "Sugar Hill" (Brunwick 372, 1929; on KMM [as Crockett Family Mountaineers])
• Virginia Mountain Boomers [Ernest V. Stoneman, Willie Stoneman, an the Sweet Brothers], "Sugar Hill" (Gennett 6687, 1929; rec. 1928)
• Crockett Ward & his Boys "Sugar Hill" (OKeh 45179, 1928; rec. 1927)

References

1. Cohen/Seeger/Wood, p. 193, "Sugar Hill" (1 text, 1 tune)
2. BI, CSW193