Jenny Run Away in the Mud in the Night
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Jenny Run Away in the Mud in the Night" is an American reel in cut time and A Mixolydian/Major.<br> It is played in EBeb, GDgd or AEae fiddle tunings. The parts are played AAAABB.<br> The tune is originally from an old recording by North Carolina fiddler Marcus Martin (1881-1974).<br> For background on Marcus Martin, see the notes to another one of his tunes<br> "Sandy River".<br> Words sometimes sung to the melody:<br> Jenny run away in the mud in the night,<br> Jenny run away in the moonshine bright;<br> Jenny run away, combing up her hair,<br> Jenny run away with the barker at the fair.<br> The first line was originally "in the middle of the night," but a mishearing has produced<br> "mud in the night". Similarly, the phrase "barker at the fair" was originally<br> "jockey to the fair",<br> the title of a British morris dance.<br> The banjo tab is by John Letscher.<br> It was printed in Milliner & Koken's Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes (2011) and<br> Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1 (1994).<br> It was recorded by Christian Wig & Mark Ward on Come Back Boys and Feed the Horses: Fiddling on the<br> Frontier and Marcus Martin (recorded by Artus Moser in Swananoa, N.C.).<br>
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