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