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Tune Annotations:	'''AIN'T THAT TROUBLE IN MIND.''' American, Song Tune and Reel (cut or 2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "Ain't that Trouble in Mind" is a song and instrumental breakdown (reel) that is a member of the "Molly and Tenbrooks" song/tune family, and is not related to the blues song "Trouble in Mind." The song and variants ("Ain't that Skippin' and Flyin'") were recorded a few times in the 78 RPM era, including by Frank Blevins & His Tarheels. Alan Lomax recorded the tune for the Library of Congress from the playing of the southwest Virginia ensemble The Ballard's Branch Bogtrotters in 1937, with Eck Dunford and Crockett Ward on fiddles, although Ward had commercially recorded it in 1929 for OKeh records. The first two stanzas of the song, which consists of couplets anchored by a one-line chorus, begin: <blockquote> ''Trouble, oh trouble, it’s trouble all the time,''<br> ''If trouble don’t kill me, I’ll live a long time.''<br> ''Ain’t that trouble in mind, Ain’t that trouble in mind.''<br> <br> ''My Mammy told me something, my Daddy told me more;''<br> ''I ever I married in my life, bring trouble in the door.''<br> ''Ain’t that trouble in mind, Ain’t that trouble in mind.''<br> <blockquote>
Source for notated version:	Eck Dunford & Crockett Ward [Milliner & Koken].
Printed sources:	Clare Milliner & Walt Koken ('''Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes'''), 2011; pp. 4-5.
Recorded sources:	Biograph RC 6003, "The Original Bogtrotters 1937-1942" (1968). County 534, Crockett Ward & His Boys - "Round the Heart of Old Galax" (1980). OKeh Records 45304 (78 RPM), Crocket Ward and His Boys (Feb., 1929).
See also listing at:	Hear the Bogtrotter's recording at Slippery Hill [https://www.slippery-hill.com/content/aint-trouble-mind]<br> Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index of Recorded Sources [https://www.ibiblio.org/folkindex/a01.htm#Ainthtri]<br>

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