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Go To Sleep, John Dinny
Old-Time, Breakdown Reel, US from Southern Appalachians and Southwestern Pa.
ARTIST: From Louis Conant (Pa., 1930's)- Bayard.
CATEGORY: Fiddle and Instrumental Tunes DATE: Early 1900’s
RECORDING INFO: Heritage XXIV, Dave Holt - "Music of North Carolina" (Brandywine, 1978). Delaware Water Gap. String Band Music, Adelphi AD 2004, LP (1977), cut#A.05; Hall, Kenny; and the Sweets Mill String Band. Kenny Hall and the Sweets Mill String Band, Vol.II, Bay 103, LP (197?), cut# 7; Hollow Rock String Band. Traditional Dance Tunes, Kanawha 311, LP (197?), cut# 4; Holt, David. It Just Suits Me, June Appal JA 0038, LP (1981), cut# 2; Rustical Quality String Band. Rustical Quality String Band, Red Dog RD 8312, LP (1983), cut#A.05b; Holt, David. Music of North Carolina, Heritage (Galax) 024 (XXIV), LP (1979), cut#B.06;
OTHER NAMES: “Dinah”
SOURCES: Bayard, Dance to the Fiddle, 1981; Appendix No. 25, pgs. 582-583; Kenny Hall’s Music Book 1999, Mel Bay p.81; Krassen (Appalachian Fiddle), 1973; pg. 28-29.
NOTES: G Major. Standard. ABB. Bayard collected this vocal version of the tune in southwestern Pa. (see Bayard, Dance to the Fiddle, 1981; Appendix No. 25, pgs. 582-583), but said it was known also as a dance tune. Kenny Hall thinks he learned “Dinah” from Doctor Humbead’s New Tranquility Stringband. For an additional set of lyrics see: “Dinah.”
LYRICS:
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.
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