Annotation:Dinah
X: 1 T:Dinah % Nottingham Music Database S:Oklahoma, via EF M:4/4 L:1/4 K:A P:A e|"A"aa "D"a/2b/2a/2f/2|"A/c+"ec -"E7/b"ce|"A"aa a/2b/2a/2e/2|\ "D"fe/2f/2 -"E7"f/2e/2f/2g/2| "A"aa a/2b/2a/2f/2|"A"ec c/2B/2A|"B7"B/2A/2B/2A/2 "E7"cB|"A"A3:| P:B e|"A"Ac A/2B/2c/2d/2|"A"ef/2e/2 c/2B/2A|"A"Ac A/2B/2c/2d/2|"D"AF -"E7"FE| "A"Ac A/2B/2c/2d/2|"A"ef/2e/2 c/2B/2A|"B7"B/2A/2B/2A/2 "E7"cB|"A"A3:|
DINAH. AKA and see "Go to Sleep John Dinny." American, Reel (cut time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Silberberg): AABB (Krassen). A member of a large and widespread tune family that includes "Heel Flies (1)," "Rock Along John to Kansas," "Seneca Square Dance," "Old Raccoon," "Coon Dog," and others. 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. The alternate title comes from a ditty sung to the tune:
It’s go to sleep, John Dinny,
It’s go to sleep I say,
It’s go to sleep, John Dinny,
For it is your christ’ning day.
