Annotation:Dinah
Tune properties and standard notation
DINAH. AKA and see "Go To Sleep, John Dinny." Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, southwestern Pa. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Silberberg): AABB (Krassen). Samuel Bayard collected a vocal version of the tune in southwestern Pa. (see Bayard, Dance to the Fiddle, 1981; Appendix No. 25, pp. 582-583), but said it was known also as a dance tune.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Krassen (Appalachian Fiddle), 1973; pp. 28-29. Silberberg (Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern), 2002; p. 36.
Recorded sources: Heritage XXIV, Dave Holt - "Music of North Carolina" (Brandywine, 1978). See also listing at Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index [1].