Annotation:Ten Nights in a Bar Room
X:1 T:Ten Nights in a Bar Room N:From the playing of fiddler Lyman Enloie (1906-1997, Missouri/Oklahoma/So. Calif.) M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel Q:"Fast" D:County CD-2707, Lyman Enloe - "Fiddle Tunes I Recall" (1973) D:https://www.slippery-hill.com/content/ten-nights-bar-room Z:Andrew Kuntz K:D ((3ABc|d2) A2 FGAc|d2A2-A2((3ABc|d2) AA FGAF|G2E2-E2((3ABc| d2) A2 FGAA|dcde d2-df|gfed cdeg|f2[df][df] [d2f2]:| |:fg|abaf gfed|f2 [d2f2]- [d2f2]fg|aaf2 gfga|b2e2-e2fg| abaf gfed|fede edcA| dc-cA BdAG |[F2A2][D2A2]-[D2A2]:|]
TEN NIGHTS IN A BAR ROOM. AKA and see "Chinky Pin (1)," "Yellow Eyed Cat," "I'm My Momma's Darling Child," "Darling Child," "Fourth of July," "Too Young to Marry (1)," "My Love Is/She's but a Lassie Yet [1]," "Sweet Sixteen," "Lead Out," "Hair in the Butter," "Farmer had a Dog," "Richmond Blues," "Love Somebody (2)." American, Reel (cut time). USA, Missouri. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA’BB’. The tune is a member of a large and widespread tune family that includes “Lead Out” (Tommy Jackson), “Love Somebody (2),” and “Darling Child,” among many other variants. Source Lyman Enloe could not remember where he learned the "Ten Nights in a Bar Room" title for the tune, but it is what he called it.
Ten Nights in a Barroom is the name of a landmark film of 1926 that had an all-Black cast. It was based on Timothy Shay Arthur's novel Ten Nights in a Bar-room and What I Saw There (1854), as well as William Pratt's play and earlier film adaptations with white actors, and told the story of the consequences of a man's drinking and the demonization of alcohol.
