Annotation:Goodnight Waltz
X:1 T:Good Night Waltz N:From the playing of the Leake County Revelers (Mississippi), with N:fiddler Wil Gilmer. M:3/4 L:1/8 R:Waltz D:https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/goodnight-waltz-1 D:Columbia 15189-D (78 RPM), Leake County Revelers (1927. Recorded D:04/1927 in New Orleans, La.). D:Document DOCD 8029, "Leake County Revelers, vol. 1" (1998) Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:C g6|a6|+slide+ga ge cA|G6|E2G2c2|ea ge cA| B6-|A6|a6|b6|ab ag fd|B3B-A2| G2B2d2| a4^g2|=g6-|g6| g6|a6|+slide+ga ge cA| G6|E2G2c2|[de]-[ee]-[e2e2][e2e2]|B2d2c2|A4B2|c6| d4-^d2|ea ge cA|G2^F2-G2|[G6e6]|[F6d6]|[E6c6]|_B6|| K:F C2F2A-B|cd- d2- dc-|d6|c6| C2F2A-B|cd- d4| +slide+E6-|E6|C2E2E2|G2c2f2|+slide+[e6e6]|{c}d6| c2d2c2|B2c2G2|A2 fg ec|de dc AF|C2F2A-B| cd- d2- dc-|d6|c6| C2F2 F[GA]-|[A6A6]|F2G2F2| D4E2|F6|G4-G[GA]-|[AA]d cA FD|C2=B,2C2| [C6A6]|[B,6G6]|[A,6F6]-|[A,6F6]||
GOODNIGHT WALTZ. AKA and see "Mayflower Waltz." American, Waltz. USA, Widely known, esp. in Mid- and Southwest. C Major ('A' part) & F Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Phillips, Silberberg): ABB (Christeson). The Leake County Revelers' version of this tune (backed by "Wednesday Night Waltz") was the second best-selling country music record for the year 1927. Learned in the 1930's by Arizona fiddler Kenner C. Kartchner. It was recorded for the Library of Congress by musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph from Ozark Mountain fiddlers in the early 1940's. Curiously, a recording of the tune was released in Québec for the French-speaking market with the completely different title "Valse des Amoureux."
