Annotation:Go to Sleep John Dinny

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 GO TO SLEEP, JOHN DINNY. AKA and see "Dinah." American, Reel and Song Tune. USA, southwestern Pa. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABB. In Pennsylvania, it was known as a dance tune, and separately as a song ditty with the following words: 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.  Source for notated version: singer Louis Conant (Pa., 1930's) [Bayard].  Printed sources: Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 25, p. 582.  Recorded sources:

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