Dinah
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Dinah", also known as "Go to Sleep John Dinny" is an old-time breakdown in A Major.<br> The parts are played AB (Silberberg) or AABB (Krassen).<br> A member of a large and widespread tune family that includes "Heel Flies", "Rock<br> Along John to Kansas", "Seneca Square Dance", "Old Raccoon", "Coon Dog" and others.<br> The A part resembles the A part of "John Ryan's Polka" in the Irish section.<br> Samuel Bayard collected a vocal version of the tune in southwestern Pa.<br> (see Bayard, Dance to the Fiddle, 1981; Appendix No. 25, pp. 582-583), but said it<br> was known also as a dance tune. The alternate title comes from a ditty sung to the<br> tune:<br> It’s go to sleep, John Dinny,<br> It’s go to sleep I say,<br> It’s go to sleep, John Dinny,<br> For it is your christ’ning day.<br> It was printed in Bayard's Dance to the Fiddle (1981),<br> Krassen's Appalachian Fiddle (1973) and<br> Silberberg's Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern (2002).<br> It was recorded by Dave Holt on Music of North Carolina (1978).<br>
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