Fly Around, My Pretty Little Miss 39th in 1924

Written by: [Traditional]
Language: English
Comments: Appalachian dance tune collected by Cecil Sharp and first recorded as a banjo instrumental by Samantha Bumgarner in April 1924. In October 1926, The Hill Billies recorded the first lyrical version which they called "Blue Eyed Girl". The West Virginia Coon Hunters released a variant called "Blue Eyes Run Me Crazy" in 1927. There is a fiddle tune called "Suzanna Gal" (or "Susannah Gal") that has modified lyrics. Some of the early Appalachian variants were called "Little Betty Ann". There is a variant called "Fare You (Thee) Well, My Blue-Eyed Girl". The Iron Mountain String Band recorded a variant they called "Western Country" in 1973.

Not to be confused with Pretty Little Miss out in the Garden, as both versions can be called "My Pretty Little Miss" or "Pretty Little Miss".

Typical lyrics -
Fly around my pretty little miss
Fly around my daisy
Fly around my pretty little miss
You almost drive me crazy

The higher up the cherry tree
The riper grows the cherries
The more you hug and kiss the girls
The sooner they will marry
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Fly Around, My Pretty Little Miss written by [Traditional] instrumental

	Title	Performer	Release date	Info
i	Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss	Samantha Bumgarner	August 1924	First recording on April 23, 1924 First release Vocalise version
i	Banjo Pieces (My Blue Eyed Gal - Cripple Creek - Old Joe Clark - Ida Red)	Peter Seeger and His Five String Banjo	1950	Medley
i	Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss	Wade Ward and Glen Smith	1967
i	Suzanna Gal	The Camp Creek Boys	1967
i	Blue-Eyed Girl	Dwight Diller	1989
i	Pretty Little Miss	Trevor & Travis Stuart	1997
i	Western Country	Dirk Powell	September 28, 1999
i	Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss	Rayna Gellert	2000
i	Blue-Eyed Girl	Jake Krack	2000
i	Fly Around	The Crooked Jades	January 15, 2002
i	Susananna Gal	Big Medicine	2002
i	Jenny Get Around	The Pine Tree String Band	July 1, 2003
i	Susanna Gal	Benton Flippen & The Smokey Valley Boys	2003
i	Fly Around, My Blue-Eyed Girl	Wilson Douglas	2005	Released more than 10 years after its recording
i	Blue Eyed Girl	John Ashby & The Free State Ramblers	2007	Released more than 10 years after its recording Live
i	Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss - Shady Grove	Craig Duncan	July 27, 2010	Medley
i	Fly Around My Pretty Little Pink	Gaither Carlton	2010	Released more than 10 years after its recording
i	Little Betty Ann	Stephen Wade	2012
i	Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss	Victor Furtado	October 16, 2014
i	Fly Around, My Pretty Little Miss	Rector Hicks	2014

Fly Around, My Pretty Little Miss written by [Traditional] English

Title	Performer	Release date	Info
Blue Eyed Girl	The Hill Billies [US]	November 1926
Your Blue Eyes Run Me Crazy	West Virginia Coon Hunters	November 1927
Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss	Frank Blevins and The Tar Heel Rattlers	January 1928
Pretty Little Pink	Bradley Kincaid	1930
Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss	Gid Tanner and His Skillet Lickers	October 1931
Pretty Little Pink	Tennessee Ernie Ford	July 20, 1959
Blue Eyed Girl [Fare You Well, My Blue-Eyed Girl]	Guy Carawan	1959
Fly Around My Blue-Eyed Girl	Hobart Smith	1960
Pretty Little Pink	Clint Howard, Doc Watson, Fred Price, Jack Johnson, Tommy Moore	March 1961
Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss	The New Lost City Ramblers	1961
My Pretty Little Pink	Ed McCurdy	1961
Pretty Little Pink	Eddie Nesbitt	1963
Fly Around	Tom Paley, Roy Berkeley, and Artie Rose	1963
Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss	Buna Hicks	1964
Pretty Little Miss	Fred Cockerham	1965
Suzanna Gal	Tommy Jarrell, Fred Cockerham & Oscar Jenkins	1968
Suzanna Gal	Ernest East & The Pine Ridge Boys	1969
Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss	Charlie Moore	May 1972
Blue-Eyed Girl	Rufus Crisp	1972	Released more than 10 years after its recording
Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss	Tex Isley	1972
Little Betty Ann	Mike Seeger	1972
Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss	Ola Belle Reed	1973
Western Country	Iron Mountain String Band	1973
Suzanna Gal	Tommy Jarrell & Kyle Creed	1973
Pretty Little Pink	Doc Watson, Clint Howard and Fred Price	1977	Live
Susanna Gal	Emmett W. Lundy	1977	Released more than 10 years after its recording
Fly All Around, My Pretty Little Miss	Indian Creek Delta Boys	1978
Susanna Gal	The Shelor Family	1979
Western Country	The Mill Run Dulcimer Band	1980
Susanna Gal	Frank Bode with Tommy Jarrell and Paul Brown	1986
Little Betty Ann	Sheila Kay Adams	1990
Pretty Little Pink	The Troxell Brothers	1990
Susanna Gal	Tommy Jarrell & Fred Cockerham	1992
Pretty Little Pink	Joel Mabus	1993
Susannah Gal	The New Dixie Entertainers	1994
Fly Around My Daisy	Roan Mountain Hilltoppers	1994
Fly Around My Blue Eyed Girl	Kristin Hersh	October 26, 1998
Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss	Laura Boosinger	1998
Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss	Country Ham	1998
Susanna Gal	John Specker	1999
Pretty Little Miss	Patty Loveless	June 13, 2001
Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss	Frank Proffitt	2001	Released more than 10 years after its recording
Fly Around	The Crooked Jades	January 15, 2002
Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss	Big Medicine	2002
Western Country	The Rockinghams	2003
Fly Around My Blue-Eyed Gal	Elizabeth LaPrelle	2004
Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss	Carter Sisters and Mother Maybelle with Chet Atkins	2005	Released more than 10 years after its recording
Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss	Rising Appalachia	2005
Jenny Get Around	Matt Brown	2006
Pretty Little Pink	The Black Eyed Susies	June 9, 2008
Suzanna Gal	The Tallboys	July 10, 2009
Western Country	The Hogslop String Band	December 4, 2009	Live
Little Betty Ann	Obray Ramsey & Byard Ray	2009	Live Released more than 10 years after its recording
Western Country	The Prairie Acre	2009
Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss	Idlewild	June 1, 2010
Suzanna Gal	Kirk Sutphin & Riley Baugus	October 30, 2010
Western Country	Colleen Raney & Colm MacCárthaigh	September 26, 2011
Blue-Eyed Miss	The Bing Brothers Band featuring Jake Krack	March 10, 2012	Live
Fly Around My Blue Eyed Gal	Rolling Turtle and The Old School String Band	June 15, 2012
Fly Around	Georgia Crackers [US3]	April 17, 2015
Blue-Eyed Gal	Modock Rounders	May 26, 2016
Fly Around, My Pretty Little Miss	Glendessary Jam	August 18, 2017
Blue Eyes Run Me Crazy	The Hillbilly Goats	January 19, 2018
Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss	Gillian Welch & David Rawlings	July 10, 2020

How Old Are You My Pretty Little Miss written by [Traditional] English

		Title	Performer	Release date	Info
		Where Are You Goin'?	Jean Ritchie and Doc Watson	1963	Live

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