| A Bunch of Thyme |
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| A Cajun Jig |
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Midi |
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| A Cajun Valse |
Traditional |
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Midi |
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| A Child This Day Is Born |
Christmas Song - Duet |
PDF |
Midi |
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| A Christmas Medley |
Consists of: the "Cherry Tree Carol", The "Holly and the Ivy" and the English version of "Away in the Manger" |
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| A Cradle Carol |
Russian Folk Christmas Carol |
PDF |
Midi |
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| A La Claire Fontaine |
French |
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Midi |
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| A La Puerto Del Cielo (At the Gate of Heaven) |
Mexican Lullaby |
PDF |
Midi |
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| A Mighty Fortress is Our God |
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| A Minor Twinkle |
An old song with a new sound. |
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Midi |
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| A New Year's Jig (Old Lang Syne) |
Traditional Scottish song. |
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Midi |
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| A New Year's Waltz (Auld Lang Syne) |
Traditional Scottish song. |
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Midi |
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| A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief |
by George Coles, 1792-1858. Arranged for Mountain Dulcimer & ?2008 by Alan R. Barnard |
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| A Thousand Candles (Swedish Christmas Carol) |
Christmas song from Sweden |
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| A Virgin Most Pure |
From Christmas Carols Ancient & Modern by Wm Sandys FSA. Circa 1833 |
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Midi |
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| A Virgin Most Pure - Harmony |
From Christmas Carols Ancient & Modern by Wm Sandys FSA. Circa 1833 |
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Midi |
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| Aberystwyth |
Welsh tune |
PDF |
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| Abide With Me |
Traditional Christian Hymn |
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Midi |
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| Abide with Me |
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| Abide With Me |
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| Abide With Us O Lord |
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| Abigail Judge |
listed as by Carolan in the Bunting - General Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland (1796, No. 45, p. 25)
from The Traditional Tunes Archive: http://www.tunearch.org/wiki/TTA |
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| Ae Fond Kiss |
Old Scottish song. |
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Midi |
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| Ah! Si Mon Moine Voulait Danser |
Folksong, believed to have been sung in France before the 17th century. The title is a play on words: "moine" means both a "spinning top" and a "monk." |
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Midi |
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| Aiken Drum |
"Aiken Drum" is a popular Scottish folk song and nursery rhyme, which probably has its origins in a Jacobite song about the Battle of Sheriffmuir (1715). |
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Midi |
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| Alas And Did My Savior Bleed |
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| All Around My Hat |
Traditional English song. |
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Midi |
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| All Children Are On Christmas Eve |
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| All in a Garden Green |
Elizabethan Dance Tune |
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| All in a Garden Green |
The earliest known edition of 'All in a Garden Green' was published in 'The English Dancing Master' (1651) by John Playford (1623-1686), but the melody appears much earlier in 'William Ballet's Lute Book' (1594). |
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| All Praise To Thee, My God, This Night |
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| All the Good Times |
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Midi |
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| All the Pretty Horses |
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| All The Way My Savior Leads Me |
Traditional Christian Hymn |
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Midi |
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| All the Way My Savior Leads Me |
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| All This Night Bright Angles Sing |
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| All Through the Night |
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| All Through the Night |
Lullaby in D |
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| Alle Jahre wieder |
German Tune |
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| Alle Vögel sind schon da |
German folk song, 19th century |
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| Alles neu macht der Mai |
German folk song, 19th century. |
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| Aloha Oe |
Traditional Hawaian |
PDF |
Midi |
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| Aloha Oe - Baritone |
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Midi |
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| Aloutte |
A French-Canadian children's song. |
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Midi |
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| Alphabet Song |
(alias Twinkle Twinkle Little Star) |
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| Always And Ever |
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| Am I A Soldier Of The Cross |
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| Amazing Grace |
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| Amazing Grace |
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Midi |
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| Amazing Grace |
The DAD version is in the chord/melody style, while the DAA is noter/drone |
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| Amazing Grace |
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| America |
Patriotic tune |
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| America The Beautiful |
Patriotic tune |
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| America the Beautiful |
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| American Patrol |
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| Amhran A Leabhair - (The Song of the Books) |
Slow Irish Aire |
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Midi |
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| Amid The Silence - Melody and Harmony |
Traditional Polish Christmas Carol |
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Midi |
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| Amser / Time |
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Midi |
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| An Boithrin Bui (The Yellow Road) |
Trad. Irish Air |
PDF |
Midi |
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| An Emigrant's Daughter |
Traditional Irish Song in Am. |
PDF |
Midi |
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| An Emigrant's Daughter |
Traditional Irish Song in Bm |
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| And Can It Be That I Should Gain? (Amazing Love) |
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| Andante |
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| Angel Band |
Southern Folk |
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| Angelina Baker |
Stephen Foster tune from "Plantation Melodies" - DAD |
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| Angelina Baker |
This old Stephen Foster tune was written in 1850. This tablature file has versions in the key of D and in the key of C. It also has DAD, DAA, CGC, and CGG tablature. The version in the key of D presents the notes an octave low for singers who don't want to sing so high. |
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| Angeline the Baker |
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Midi |
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| Angeline the Baker in DGD |
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| Angels from the Realms of Glory |
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| Angels We Have Heard On High |
The words of the song are based on a traditional French carol known as Les Anges dans nos campagnes (literally, "Angels in our countryside") composed by an unknown author in Languedoc, France. That song has received many adjustments or alignments including its most common English version that was translated in 1862 by James Chadwick, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle, northeast England. The carol quickly became popular in the West Country, where it was described as 'Cornish' by R.R. Chope, and featured in Pickard-Cambridge's Collection of Dorset Carols.[1]
There is also a Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig) translation of the carol which is known as Ainglean chuala sinn gu h-ard (literally, "Angels We Have Heard on High"). This was translated into Gaelic by Iain MacMilan from James Chadwick's English translation. |
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| Angels We Have Heard On High |
Christmas Carol |
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| Angels We Have Heard on High |
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| Annie Laurie |
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| Annie Went Down To The Cabbage Patch |
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| Antrim Hills |
I found this polka in "Irish Traditional Fiddle Music" by Miller & Perron. At irishtune.info, a great website, there's a list of other titles for the same basic tune, most notably, "Jim Keeffe's". But the versions I found aren't quite the same, so I'm sticking with this one. Just don't quote me - I'm not an expert on Irish fiddle music! |
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Midi |
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| Apple Blossom |
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Midi |
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| Ar Eirinn - (For Ireland, I Won't Say Her Name) |
Trad. Irish Waltz |
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Midi |
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| Ar Erin Ni Neosfainn Ce Hi |
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| Ar Hyd Y Nos |
Welsh tune |
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| Aragon Mill |
Folk |
PDF |
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| Aran Boat Song |
Song of the Aran Islands Circa 1880's |
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| Are You Washed in the Blood |
Gospel |
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| Arfon |
Welsh tune |
PDF |
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| Arirang |
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| Arkansas Travler |
Fiddle Tune |
PDF |
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| Arkansas_Traveler |
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Midi |
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| Around Her Neck She Wore A Yellow Ribbon |
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Midi |
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| Around Her Neck She Wore A Yellow Ribbon - Mixolydian |
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| Arran Boat Song with Harmony |
Arran Boat Song in DAD tuning with harmony. The LISTEN file is recorded with the melody in one stereo channel and the harmony is in the other channel (right speaker or left speaker). You can turn down or unplug a speaker to hear just the melody or the harmony. This version is mostly E Dorian. |
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| Arru Nino |
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| As I Went Down In The Valley To Pray |
Traditional Folk Spiritual collected in 1867 as "The Good Old Way" in "Slave Songs of the United States" |
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| As The Sun Doth Daily Rise |
This hymn was published in "Hymn for Saint's Day, and other Hymns" in 1864, with the author shown as Horatio Nelson and the tune INNOCENTS. Some say the author is unknown and Nelson "adapted" the words. |
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| As with Gladness Men of Old |
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| Ash Grove |
Traditional Welsh folk song. |
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| Ash Grove |
Welsh tune |
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| At Calvary |
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| Atholl Gathering |
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Midi |
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| Auld Lang Syne |
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| Auld Lang Syne |
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| Auld Lang Syne |
Traditional New Years |
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| Auprès de ma blonde |
"Auprès de ma blonde" dates at least as far back as the 17th century and the Dutch War (1762-1768). The lyrics express the longing of a French soldier captured by the Dutch who sings of how beautiful things are back home and how peacefully he sleeps next to his sweetheart. The song crossed the Atlantic and became a standard of the "voyageurs," the French-Canadian fur trappers who sang as they rowed their canoes through the North American wilderness. |
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| Aura Lee |
Aura Lee was written before the Civil War by W. W. Fosdick, with music by George R. Poulton. It became popular among soldiers because it gave them a happy, light thought to focus on while dealing with the dangers of war. It may give them hope and motivation to get back home to their wives. |
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| Aura Lee |
Two versions: high and low melody |
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Midi |
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| Ave Maria |
Bach/Gounod |
PDF |
Midi |
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| Ave Maria (Franz Schubert) |
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Midi |
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| Avenging and Bright |
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Midi |
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| Away In A Manger |
Christmas Carol |
PDF |
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| Away In A Manger |
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| Away In A Manger |
Christmas Carol |
PDF |
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| Away in a Manger |
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Midi |
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| Away to Rio |
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PDF |
Midi |
TXT |
| Ay, Ay, Ay! |
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Midi |
TXT |
| B-I-N-G-O |
The clapping DOG song |
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| Ba Huangshan BianchenFu Cunzhuang |
Traditional Chinese.
Spring in a village in the Yellow Mountains(?) |
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Midi |
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| Babes in the Woods |
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Midi |
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| Baidin Fheldimi |
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| Bailiff's Daughter of Islington |
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Midi |
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| Banana Boat Song |
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| Banish Misfortune |
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| Banks of Allan |
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Midi |
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| Banks of Sullane |
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Midi |
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| Banks of the Ohio |
Rejected love and murder most foul - DAD |
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Midi |
ABC |
| Banks of the Ohio |
Lyrics as recorded by Bascomb Lamar Lunsford in 1953. |
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Midi |
TXT |
| Banks of the Ohio |
Duet |
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Midi |
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| Banks of the Sacramento |
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Midi |
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| Barbara Allen |
"Barbara Allen" (Child 84) is a ballad originating in England and Scotland, which immigrants introduced to the United States, where it became a popular folk song. It has been described as, "...far and away the most widely collected song in the English language." |
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Midi |
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| Barbara Allen |
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Midi |
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| Barlow Knife |
Contains octave jump in key of D, and key change modulation between D and G. |
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Midi |
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| Barney and Katey |
Collected in CT, 1949, Arranged by Steve Smith |
PDF |
Midi |
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| Battle Cry of Freedom |
Civil War Song |
PDF |
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| Battle Hymn of the Republic |
Patriotic tune |
PDF |
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| Battle Hymn of the Republic |
Civil War song in 3 different octaves |
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Midi |
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| Be Still My Soul |
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| Be Still My Soul |
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| Be Still My Soul |
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| Be Thou My Vision |
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| Be Thou My Vision |
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| Be Thou My Vision |
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Midi |
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| Be Thou My Vision |
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Midi |
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| Beach Spring - Melody and Harmony |
An old Shaker song. |
PDF |
Midi |
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| Beaumont Rag |
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Midi |
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| Beautiful Dreamer |
key of G |
PDF |
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| Beautiful Dreamer |
key of D |
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| Beautiful Dreamer |
DAD capo 3 |
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| Beautiful Star of Bethlehem |
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| Beautiful, Beautiful Brown Eyes |
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| Bedfordshire May Day Carol |
This version includes melody only (for noter playing) and chord melody tablature in DAA and DAD tunings. The lyrics are included and there are 5 pages in the pdf file. The midi file plays the melody in DAA, then DAD, then DAA with chords, then DAD with chords. |
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| Been to the East, Been to the West |
I'm not sure where I found this Old-Time tune, but it's a fun one. Look on YouTube for Rachel Eddy with this title and you'll hear lots of ornaments and variations you can add to it. And she plays it in D! (In researching it, I see that Stephen Seifert has it in his "Join the Jam II" book. I'll have to search it out and compare versions!) |
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| Beggar |
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Midi |
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| Bells of Saint Mary's |
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| Berwick Jockey |
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Midi |
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| Beulah Land |
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| Beware, Oh, Take Care |
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| Big Rock Candy Mountain |
A Wikipedia article says authorship was claimed by both Harry McClintock and Billy Mack, but in a lawsuit the song was ruled to be in the public domain.
I best remember the version that Burl Ives recorded in 1949.
While I was working on my MD arrangement, I found the song in a book with crumbly pages that I inherited from my mother, Gems of the Universe, 200 of the world's most favorite songs, (Remick Music Corp., 1934).
A few disjointed thoughts there. Anyhow here's the song. |
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| Billy Barlow |
This Southwestern ballad is found in Alan Lomax's "Folksongs of North America" and was sung by Pete Seeger and others, with some variations in lyric and timing. An old English version describes a quintet shooting a cutty wren with bows and arrows. It was a song of protest by the hungry British peasantry. In most American versions, a squirrel, rat, or other small animal replaces the cutty wren. |
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| Billy Boy |
Traditional American Folk Song |
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| Bittersweet Memories (Dulcimer 1) |
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| Bittersweet Memories (Dulcimer 2) |
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| Bittersweet Memories (Guitar) |
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| Bjørnen Sover |
Swedish children's song |
PDF |
Midi |
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| Black -Eyed Susie |
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| Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair - CGC tuning, Key of F |
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| Black Mountain Rag |
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PDF |
Midi |
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| Black Mountain Rag |
Two versions: DAD in chord/melody style, DAA in noter/drone style |
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| Black Mountain Rag v1 |
Tabbed for my club |
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| Black Mountain Rag v2 |
tabbed for my club |
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| Black Velvet Band |
Per Wikipedia, the song dates back to somewhere between 1837 -1853. It has been redone many times since. This is an old Irish Folk tune that surprisingly may have originated in England albeit with different lyrics. |
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Midi |
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| Blackberry Blossom |
Bluegrass |
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| Blackberry Blossom |
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Midi |
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| Blackberry Winter |
Traditional Folk Song |
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| Blackest Crow-fingerstyle |
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| Blank Tablature Page |
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| Bless Be The Tie That Binds |
Hymn |
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| Blessed Assurance |
Hymn |
PDF |
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| Blessed Assurance - Ionian |
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| Blind Mary |
Attributed to Turlough O'Carolan, though not his usual composing style. |
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Midi |
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| Blind Mary |
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Midi |
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| Bloomfield Leaves |
Original song with permission |
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| Blow the Candles Out |
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| Blow The Man Down |
A Sea Shanty |
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Midi |
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| Blow, Boys, Blow |
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Midi |
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| Blue Juniata |
Old pretty tune |
PDF |
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| Board-Walker's Waltz |
Original composition by Paul G. Sykes. |
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Midi |
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| Boatman |
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| Bohemian Christmas Song |
Anon. Czech Republic |
PDF |
Midi |
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| Boil Them Cabbage Down |
Traditional Folk Tune popular with dulcimer players |
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| Boil Them Cabbage Down |
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| Bold Peddler |
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Midi |
TXT |
| Bold Riley |
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PDF |
Midi |
TXT |
| Bonaparte Crossing The Rhine |
Old fiddle tune in DAD |
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| Bonaparte's Retreat |
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| Bonaparte's Retreat - Lyrics |
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| Boney |
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PDF |
Midi |
TXT |
| Bonnie Doon |
Scottish waltz |
PDF |
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| Boulavogue |
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PDF |
Midi |
TXT |
| Bourree |
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PDF |
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| Boys of Bluehill |
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PDF |
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| Brady |
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PDF |
Midi |
TXT |
| Brady |
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PDF |
Midi |
TXT |
| Brahms Lullaby |
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| Branle de Bourgogne |
A Branle is a French Renaissance dance which is said to have opened most balls at the time. Sixteenth-century write Thoinot Arbeau says of the Burgundian Branle, "this is how servants and lackeys dance." |
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| Brethren We Have Met To Worship |
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| Brian Boru's March |
Irish Jig |
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| Brian Boru's March |
Irish Jig |
PDF |
Midi |
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| Brindley Mountain Reel |
Original tune by Shirley Gullion, submitted with her permission |
PDF |
Midi |
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| Bring a Torch & Good Christian |
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| Bringing In The Sheaves |
This version contains a melody only version and a chord/melody version. One note is a D# and a D (open melody string) is substituted for that note. |
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Midi |
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| Brown Eyes |
Although Woody Guthrie recorded it in the 1940's and various artists copyrighted their versions since then, this tune has been around since well before then and since, in many versions. This version is the tune Guthrie recorded, with an extra two verses that fill out the story. |
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Midi |
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| Brushy Fork Of John's Creek |
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PDF |
Midi |
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| Bryn Calfaria |
Welsh tune |
PDF |
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| Buachaill on Eirne |
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PDF |
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| Buck Eyed Rabbit |
Fiddle Tune |
PDF |
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| Buck-Eyed Jim |
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Midi |
TXT |
| Buffalo Boy |
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PDF |
Midi |
TXT |
| Bullfrog Junction |
Original composition by Paul G. Sykes. |
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Midi |
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| Bully of the Town |
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PDF |
Midi |
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| Bury Me Beneath the Willow |
Fold Song |
PDF |
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| Butcher Boy |
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PDF |
Midi |
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| Butter'd Pease |
An English dance tune found in Walsh's "The Compleat Country Dancing-Master 4th Edition" (London, 1765) as well as other dance collections in the 1700's. Related to the Scottish strathspey, Stumpie. |
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Midi |
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| By the Light of the Silvery Moon |
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PDF |
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| By The Silvery Rio Grande |
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PDF |
Midi |
TXT |
| Cabbage and Noodles |
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PDF |
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| Cajun Two-Step |
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PDF |
Midi |
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| Cajun Waltz |
Southern Folk |
PDF |
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| Cajun Waltz |
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PDF |
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| Camptown Cabbage |
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PDF |
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| Camptown Jig |
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PDF |
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| Camptown Races |
by Stephen Foster |
PDF |
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| Canadien Errant |
|
PDF |
Midi |
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| Candlemas Eve Carol |
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PDF |
Midi |
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| Cannon's Land 1 |
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PDF |
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| Cannon's Land 2 |
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PDF |
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| Canon |
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| Cape Cod Girls |
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PDF |
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| Careless Love |
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PDF |
Midi |
TXT |
| Carmina Burana |
Played in E minor with capo on the first fret. I heard Sandy Bull play this on a banjo years ago, and managed to pick it out on a dulcimer. |
PDF |
Midi |
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| Carol Of The Bells |
This version in CGC tuning might be easier for singers with low voices. |
PDF |
Midi |
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| Carol of the Bells |
Two part arrangement by Shirley Gullion, submitted with her permission. Two different versions of Dulcimer 2 part: one with 1+ fret, one without |
PDF |
Midi |
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| Carol Of The Hay |
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PDF |
Midi |
TXT |
| Carolan's Dream |
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PDF |
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| Carrickfergus |
An old Irish song circa 1745. |
PDF |
Midi |
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| Carrickfergus |
Irish Folk Song - circa 1745 |
PDF |
Midi |
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| Carry Me Back to Old Viginny (D) |
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PDF |
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| Carry Me Back to Old Virginny |
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PDF |
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| Castle By The Sea (NH) |
|
PDF |
Midi |
TXT |
| Castle By The Sea (Spanish) |
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PDF |
Midi |
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| Castle of Dromore |
Traditional Irish |
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| Catherine Martin |
Catherine Martin was written by Turlough O'Carolan. This version is in DAD tuning but a dulcimer tuned EBD (E bass, B middle, and D melody) is playing just the melody notes on the LISTEN file. |
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| Celebrated Trumpet Tune, The |
This arrangement is of tune #590 in "The Gow Collection of Scottish Dance Music."
It's my first attempt at actually showing a duet in the staff and notes, even though the tab doesn't attempt to play all of both parts - just the melody and some of the harmony. However, if you have a four-string dulcimer in D-A-d-d it's quite possible to play the duet, given the way the two trumpets parts are written. |
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| Chad Gadyo |
Israeli Children's Folk Song |
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| Chairs to Mend |
An English round from the late 1700's. This popular version is just the first two measures of each line of five measures of the original round, written by William Hayes. |
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| Charity |
Just started playing Appalachian Mountain Dulcimer several months ago, and I wrote this song, it's about my daughter & her horse...David Messenger |
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| Cherokee Shuffle |
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| Chester |
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| Childgrove |
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| Chinquapin Hunting |
Key of A - Capo 4 |
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| Chopsticks |
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| Chord Aid - Chords with Fingering |
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| Chord Aid - Putting Chords to Notes |
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| Chord Chart DAA Major |
DAA Major Chord Chart |
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| Chord Chart DAA Minor |
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| Chord Chart DAD Major |
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| Chord Chart DAD Minor |
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| Chord chart for AEA tuning |
Steve Smith has done it again! |
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| Choucoune (Ti Zwazo) |
The song "Choucoune" is sometimes referred to as a traditional Haitian song called "Ti Zwazo." But the music was written in 1893 by Michel Maulert Monton to accompany a poem written by Oswald Durant in 1883. A song with the identical chorus and a slightly different verse became known in English as "Yellow Bird." |
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| Christ Arose |
Old hymn by Robert Lowry |
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| Christ the Lord is Risen Today |
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| Christmas e-booklet (beginner) |
Beginner TAB for Jingle Bells, Friendly Beasts, Good Christian Men Rejoice, Angels We Have Heard On High and First Noel. Chords for dulcimer to accompany singing Silent Night and Away In A Manger |
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| Christmas Eve |
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| Christmas Eve - Ireland |
Short version of a traditional Irish jig |
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| Christmas Eve - Sweden |
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| Christmas Is Coming |
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| Christmas Medley |
Cherry Tree Carol/Holy and the Ivy/Away in the Manger (English Version) |
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| Christmas Song |
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| Christmas Time's A Comin' |
Here's another one from my Christmas CD. This is a duet tuned DAD in the key of D |
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| Church in the Wildwood |
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| Church in the Wildwood |
Three part arrangement: Low Melody, Harmony, and High Melody |
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| Cielito Lindo |
Mexican folk song. |
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| Ciocarlanul |
Romanian Folk Song |
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| Click Go the Shears |
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| Cliffs of Dooneen |
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| Cluck Old Hen |
"Cluck Old Hen" is a popular Appalachian fiddle and banjo tune. |
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| Coast of Peru |
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| Cold is the Morning |
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| Cole Younger |
Arranged by Steve Smith |
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| Coleman's March |
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| Colinda |
Cajun tune! (Handwritten tab) |
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| Collaborative Calypso |
This tune was a collaborative effort by Grant Olson, Ron Zuckerman, and David Elosser.
It is the result of an idea by Grant Olson who proposed a "round robin" tune in which each participant would write 4 measures of the tune and hand it off to the next person. The rules were that no half frets could be used other than 6 1/2, no one was allow to change anything that another person did, and no time or key signature changes. You can read about this in the Jam Session thread "Round Robin Song-#1" (http://www.everythingdulcimer.com/discuss/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=32347) |
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| Colonel Baird |
From "The Gow Collection of Scottish Dance Music," it credits "Mrs. Oswald." The original collections were published between 1784 and 1822. Although this tune is in the "Jigs" section, it's not too hard to play, and is, after all, listed with the instruction, "Slowish". |
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| Color-coded Multiple-tuning note chart |
Great tool to keep handy! |
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| Columbus Stockade Blues |
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| Come Again |
16th century lute tune by John Dowland. Word also by John Dowland. |
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| Come Christians Join To Sing |
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| Come Dance and Sing |
Old Time Folk Song - circa early 1900's |
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| Come Here, Lord |
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| Come Let Us Be Joyful |
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| Come Thou Almighty King |
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| Come Thou Fount |
Hymn |
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| Come Thou Fount Of Every Blessing |
Traditional Christian Hymn |
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| Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing |
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| Come Thou Long Expected Jesus - Chord Melody |
DAD chord-melody arrangement |
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| Come Thou Long Expected Jesus - Melody Drone |
Melody drone, dorian tuning. CGF low to high. |
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| Come, Thou Fount Of Every Blessing |
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| Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing |
Hymn |
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| Comfort, Comfort, Ye My People |
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| Common Bill |
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| Coplas |
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| Corcoran's Cross |
Traditional Irish |
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| Cosher Bailey's Engine |
Crashsaw Bailey (1789 - 1872) was an English Industrialist who became one of the great iron-masters of Wales. In 1845 he was instrumental in setting up the Aberdare Railway, and also promoted railways between Coleford and Usk, via Monmouth. He was well known for being hostile to trade unions and opposed his workers organizing themselves along these lines. The nonsense song written about Crashaw Bailey was soon corrupted to "Cosher Bailey" and verses were added on by anyone who knew how to make a rhyme. |
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| Cossack Lullaby |
Russian Folk Song |
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| Cotton Mill Girls |
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| Cotton-Eyed Joe |
Pre-1861 |
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| Coventry Carol |
This version has tab for DAD, CGC, and GDA# mountain dulcimer tunings. It also includes additional arrangements with lyrics and guitar chords. |
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| Coventry Carol |
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| Coventry Carol - Melody and Harmony |
16th Century Christmas carol. |
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| Covered Bridge Waltz |
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| Crabwalk |
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| Crawdad Song |
Fun tune |
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| Creag Ghuanach DAA |
This version requires a 6+ fret for one of the chords. |
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| Creag Ghuanach DAA Noter |
This version starts with a refrain, then a verse, then the refrain. The harmony can be heard in the LISTEN file on the second refrain. |
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| Creag Ghuanach DAD |
This version is played with a refrain, then verse, then refrain. The LISTEN file has a harmony on the second refrain. |
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| Cripple Creek |
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| Crow Fish Man |
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| Crown Him with Many Crowns |
old hymn |
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| Cruel War |
This song supposedly dates back to the Civil War, but it may come from an older British song, as the lyrics mention gunieas, an English coin minted from 1663 to 1816. Civil War era photos exist of women dressed in soldier's uniforms. There were allegedly 600 women who served in the army, disguised as men. Some versions of this song have a tragic ending where she is killed in battle. |
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| Cryderville Jail |
One of many songs complaining about prison life. Related songs are Wise County Jail, Durham Jail, The Durant Jail, Hard Times in Mount Holly Jail and Hard Times at Little New River. |
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| Cumberland Gap |
There are lots of versions of this song. This tune is based on Leroy Troy's version on the CD, 'Songs of the Civil War'. The lyrics here are based on several versions and are common, but each singer seems sing it their own way! |
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| Cwm Rhondda |
Welsh tune |
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| Dan The Cobbler |
Traditional Irish |
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| Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies |
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| Danny Boy |
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| Danny Boy |
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| Danny Boy (Londonderry Air) |
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| Dark Eyes |
Traditional Russian Tune |
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| Darktown Strutters' Ball |
Four-part arrangement: Melody, Harmony, Bass, and Dulcimer Drum |
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| Darlin' Corey |
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| Dat du mien leevsten buest |
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| Dawning of the Day |
The Dawning of the Day (Irish: Fáinne Gael an Lae) is an old Irish air composed by the blind harpist Thomas Connellan in the 17th Century. |
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| Dawning of the Day |
Ancient Irish Harp Melody "Fainne Geal an Lae" |
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| Deceivèd Girl, The |
Collected in KY - 1932 |
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| Deck The Halls |
Christmas carol |
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| Deep Elem Blues |
Blues |
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| Delia |
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| Dem Dry Bones |
American Spiritual |
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| Den Signade Dag |
One of at least three Swedish songs by this name. My favorite, by far! I particularly like a comment on an amazing YouTube video of the a cappella group Kraja performing this song at a Christmas concert: "Until yesterday I didn't believe in the existence of angels. Now I changed my mind." |
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| Devil Ate the Groundhog |
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| Did Christ Over Sinners Weep |
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| Did You Ever See A Lassie |
Kids song |
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| Ding Dong Merrily On High |
Christmas dance tune circa mid-1500's |
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| Dingle Regatta |
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| Dives and Lazarus |
A version of the English ballad "Dives and Lazarus," this was collected by John Jacob Niles from the singing of Lottie Higgins; Harlan, KY in 1934. It was originally an English ballad (Child Ballad 56) and a carol. It is based on a parable of Jesus reported only in the Gospel of Luke (16:19-31). As in other popular renderings of the Lazarus and Dives parable, "Dives" (Latin for "rich" or "splendid") was considered as a proper name. |
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| Dixie |
Civil war tune played frequently by both sides |
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| Dixie's Lament |
"Dixie" played in a minor key |
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| Do Lord |
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| Do, Do, Pity My Case |
From "American Folk Songs for Children" by Ruth Crawford Seeger |
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| Dog Treed A Possum Up A White Oak Tree |
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| Don't You Weep After Me |
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| Dona Nobis Pacem |
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| Donald MacGillavry |
Donald McGallavry as played on the "Lewis and Clark" soundtrack (Film by Ken Burns) |
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| Donkey Riding |
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| Down By The Glenside |
An Irish Republican Rebel Song |
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| Down by the Salley Garden |
DAD, DAA, CGC |
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| Down by the Sally Garden |
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| Down in the Valley |
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| Down Yonder |
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| Doxology |
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| Doxology |
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| Doxology |
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| Dreadnought |
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| Dreidel Song |
Playing with the dreidel (a spinning top with four sides, and a Hebrew letter printed on each side) is a traditional Hanukkah game played in Jewish homes all over the world.
The meaning of the lyrics to the Yiddish and English versions is largely the same. However, in English the singer sings about a dreidel, whereas in Yiddish the singer is the dreidel. In the Yiddish version, the dreidel is made out of "blay", which is lead, which is historically accurate, and in the English version it is made of clay.
Professor of Music and Jewish Studies at Northeastern University, Joshua Jacobson, claims the song was originally in Yiddish and the opening line was "I made it out of lead."
Samuel Grossman is said to have penned the English lyrics, and Samuel Goldfarb, a Jewish liturgical composer employed by the Bureau of Jewish Education between 1914 and 1929, wrote the melody for the English version. |
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| Drifting Too Far From The Shore |
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| Drink To Me Only |
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| Drunkard's Hell |
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| Drunken Sailor |
A Sea Song |
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| Du Du Liegst Mir Im Herzen |
DAD, DAA, CGC, and CGG |
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| Du Du Liegst Mir Im Herzen |
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| Duck of the Meadow |
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| Dudulas |
Hungarian Folk Song |
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| Duermete Nino Lindo (Sleep Beautiful Boy) |
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| Dulcimer Blues |
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| Dulcimer Tab Page |
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| Eagle's Whistle |
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| Early One Morning |
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| East Virginia |
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| Easter Hymn |
This popular Easter tune serves as the melody for "Jesus Christ is Risen Today" (which was based on a 14th-century Latin hymn) and "Christ the Lord is Risen Today" (which was written by Charles Wesley in 1739). |
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| Ebenezer |
Welsh tune |
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| Echoes from Heaven |
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| Ein Hund lief in die K?che |
German tune |
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| El Condor Pasa |
DAC Tune |
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| Eleanor Plunkett |
A popular Irish harp tune by Turlough O'Carolan |
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| En Passant par la Lorraine |
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| En Passant par la Lorraine |
French children's song |
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| Engine 143 |
From Wikipedia: "Engine One-Forty-Three" is a ballad in the tradition of early American train wreck songs, based on the true story of the wreck of the FFV near Hinton, West Virginia on October 23rd, 1890. The train was on its way to Clifton Forge, Virginia, when it hit a rock slide. The author of the song is unknown, but the best known version of the song was written down by A. P. Carter and recorded by the Carter Family. |
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| English Country Garden |
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| Er Is Een Kindeke Geboran Op Aard |
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| Every Star Shall Sing A Carol |
Christmas Song |
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| Everybody Loves Saturday Night |
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| Expectation Waltz (Odzindani) |
Russian folk song 1914 |
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| Fa la nana, bambin |
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| Fa la nana, bambin |
Italian lullaby |
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| Factory Girl |
Boy, any time you want to know about traditional songs you should visit mudcat.org - you'll be there for hours! Here's a song that's probably been around since the 1830's, again with lots of variations. (But definitely not the same "Factory Girl" sung by the Rolling Stones!) |
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| Fair and Tender Ladies |
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| Fair and Tender Ladies |
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| Fairest Lord Jesus |
Three part arrangement: Melody, Harmony, and Bass |
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| Fairest Lord Jesus |
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| Fais Dodo (Go To Sleep) |
French Lullaby, Arranged by Steve smith |
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| Faith Of Our Fathers |
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| Farewell to Tarwathie |
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| Farewell To The Tarpeys Of Arderry |
Traditional Irish Jig |
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| Farewell To Whiskey |
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| Farmer In The Dell |
Traditional Kids Song |
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| Farther Along |
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| Farther Along |
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| Fast Flowin' River |
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| Fast Flowin' River (Guitar Tab) |
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| Father Father |
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| Father Halperin's Top Coat |
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| Father O'Flynn |
Irish Jig |
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| Feed Her Candy And Tell Her Lies - Complete |
Old-time |
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| Feed Her Candy And Tell Her Lies - Simplified |
Old-time |
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| Field of Hay |
This is an old Irish jig I derived from P. W. Joyce's "Ancient Irish Music" published in 1873. Mr. Joyce collected many Irish tunes at the time and this one he "Noted down from the whistling of Philip Gleeson, of Coolfree, in the County of Limerick". This version is in the E Phrygian mode. |
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| Finlandia - Be Still My Soul |
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| Fire Down Below |
Also called The Fire Ship |
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| Fire Down Below |
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| First Noel |
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| First Noel |
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| Fisher's Hornpipe |
Based on an arrangement by Butch Ross, submitted with his permission |
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| Five Pound Possum |
Humor |
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| Flop Eared Mule |
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| Flop-Eared Mule - Low D version |
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| Flowers of Edinburgh |
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| Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss |
Fiddle Tune |
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| Foggy Dew - Basic Melody |
Basic melody version of this lovely traditional Irish Air. : |
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| Foggy Dew w/Rhythm |
Rhythm arrangement of this lovely, traditional Irish Air. |
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| Foggy Dew with Simple Chords |
A simplified chord melody version of this lovely, traditional Irish Air. |
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| Follow the Drinking Gourd |
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| For Those In Peril On The Sea |
Naval Academy Hymn |
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| For The Beauty of the Earth |
Key of D |
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| For The Beauty of the Earth |
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| For The Beauty Of The Earth |
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| Four In The Middle |
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| Four Marys |
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| Fourths |
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| Free America |
Revolutionary War Song |
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| Frere Jacques/Are You Sleeping/Brother John |
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| Froggie Went A Courtin' |
Traditional Kids Song |
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| From Depths of Woe I Cry to Thee |
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| From Heaven Above to Earth I Come |
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| From Night Till Morn |
A Welsh tune now known as a pub tune in Britain, from William Litten's Tune Book, a collection of fiddle tunes made by William Litten at sea with the British India fleet in the years 1800 to 1802. Sometimes with lyrics, it appears in many books from throughout the British Isles from 1779 through the 1800's, including a classical version credited to William Shield |
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| From The Hillls To The Sea |
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| Fur Elise |
This is for chromatic dulcimer |
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| Gabriel's Message |
This file includes tab for DAD and CGC mountain dulcimer along with lyrics and guitar chords. Gabriel's Message is usually a favorite around Christmas time but the theme might also be suitable for 9 months before Christmas. |
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| Gabriel's Message |
Gabriel's Message' was adopted from a 16th century traditional Basque carol by English composer Edgar Pettman in 1892 for his songbook 'Modern Christmas Carols'. The carol tells the story of the event where the archangel Gabriel tells the virgin Mary that she is soon to bear the baby Jesus. |
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| Gaelic Air |
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| Gaily The Troubadour |
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| Gary Owen |
U.S. 7th Cavalry Regimental Marching Song |
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| Gary Owen - Bm |
U.S. 7th Cavalry Regimental Marching Song in Bm |
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| Gaudete |
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| Generous Woman |
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| Gentle Annie |
Nice Stephen Foster tune |
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| Gentle Maidens' Waltz |
Original composition by Paul G. Sykes. |
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| Gently Johnny, My Jingalo |
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| Geordie (Four String Version) |
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| George Collins |
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| Ghost of the Well |
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| Gimme Some Fried Green Tamaders |
Novelty song. |
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| Give Me That Old Time Religion |
Southern Gospel Song |
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| Give Me Your Hand |
Give Me Your Hand (Tabhair Dom Do Lamh) by Ruairi Dall O'Cathain (blind Rory O'Cahan,1570-1650), an Irish harper who emigrated to Scotland. He wrote this tune for Lady Eglinton in about 1603 after she apologized for insulting him. The tune is sometimes mistakenly attributed to O'Carolan, who was born 20 years after O'Cathain's death.
This song is often played at Irish weddings and is sometimes called the Irish Wedding Song. |
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| Give Your Heart To Jesus |
Music and Lyrics by Reverend Alfred Arthur Grayley
From Heavenly Carols (1878) |
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| Go Down Moses |
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| Go Tell It On The Mountain |
Christmas spiritual |
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| Go Tell It on the Mountain |
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| Go To Sleepy |
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| God Be With You Til We Meet Again |
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| God Loves Me Dearly |
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| God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen |
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| God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen |
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| God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen |
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| God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen |
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| God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen |
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| Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad |
Some people think Woody Guthrie wrote this, while others only know the Grateful Dead version. It's a traditional folk song that was first recorded in 1924, and was a theme song for hobos and Dust Bowl refugees in the 1930's. There are many versions of the song's lyrics, given how many folks have sung it. The ones I'm including are from The Folk Song Abecedary, published in 1966. |
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| Going Down To Cairo |
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| Going Home |
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| Gold Watch & Chain |
Blue Grass |
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| Golden Slippers |
Traditional
National Anthem for the Hammer Dulcimer |
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| Gone But Not Forgotten |
Possible Post Bellum song |
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| Good Christian Friends |
Christmas Hymn |
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| Good King Wenceslas |
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| Good King Wenceslas |
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| Good Morning Mr. Railroadman |
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| Good Night Ladies |
Folk song from 1867 |
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| Good Times with Good Friends |
Original composition written while wait for people to show up for a jam and social. It represents the fellowship shared when friends get together to make music |
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| Goodbye Old Paint |
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| Goodbye, Brother |
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| Goodnight Irene |
Melody and Harmony |
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| Goodnight Irene |
Melody and Harmony |
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| Grace Greater Than Our Sin |
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| Grandfather's Clock |
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| Grandfather's Dance |
A pub song played throughout the British Isles. |
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| Granny Does Your Dog Bite |
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| Gray Cat on a Tennesee Farm |
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| Great Big Taters in Sandy Land |
This is an old-time tune, and such has lots of variations, most of them in the key of G. This one's fun to play on the dulcimer, although it's tabbed here in D. But once you learn it, you can retune to D-G-dd or D-G-GG and play along with the fiddlers, with some changes in fingering, of course! |
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| Great Granddad |
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| Green Broom |
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| Green Grow The Rushes-O |
words by Robert Burns |
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| Green Willis |
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| Green Wood Tree |
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| Greensleeves |
Classic piece for those who play at Renn Fairs and the like. Dates back to the 1500s. Some say it was composed by Henry VIII. |
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| Greensleeves |
The reason I like to fingerpick Greensleeves is to make the dulcimer sound more lute-like in Elizabethan-style. |
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| Greensleeves |
This is a fingerpicked version. |
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| Greensleeves |
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| Grimstock |
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| Ground Hog |
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| Groundhog |
This old traditional tune has many versions. This version includes versions for DAD tuning and DAE tuning. Players might want to use a capo on the 6th fret for the DAD version. A noter or melody only method is all that is needed for playing the DAE version. |
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| Groundhog 2 |
This version of Groundhog is in DAA tuning. |
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| Gute Nacht |
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| Ha Na Boddachin |
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| Hail Holy Queen Enthroned Above |
and Daa |
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| Hail to the Chief |
music by James Sanderson
lyrics by Sir Walter Scott
words by Albert Gamse |
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| Hallelujah I'm A Bum! |
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| Hallelujah! What A Savior |
Traditional Christian Hymn |
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| Hangman, Slack On The Line |
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| Happy Birthday |
The most recognized song in the English language. |
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| Happy Birthday To You |
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| Happy Christmas Comes Once More |
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| Happy Land |
Southern Folk |
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| Happy Land |
Three-part arrangement: Melody, Low Harmony, and High Harmony |
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| Hard Times |
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| Hard Times Come Again No More |
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| Hard, Ain't It Hard |
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| Hark the Glad Sound |
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| Hark the Harold Angels Sing (page 1) |
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| Hark the Harold Angels Sing (page 2) |
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| Hark The Herald Angels Sing |
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| Hark! The Herald Angels Sing |
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| Harrison Town |
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| Harvest |
From Mark Horning: How the song came about, I was sitting on my front porch playing the dulcimer in the fall when the moon came up and simutaniously I hit on a waltz melody. The words came two weeks later. At first I called it half moon until a friend reminded me that that's the symbol on a outhouse door. I then changed it to Harvest Moon until another friend reminded me of the Neil Young song so now it is Harvest Moon Arising. There is no copyright on this one. It is my gift to you guys. |
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| Haste to the Wedding |
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| Haven of Rest |
Hymn |
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| Hawaiian Wedding Song |
This file was uploaded as two jpgs. |
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| Haymakers |
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| He is Born the Divine Christ Child |
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| He Leadeth Me |
Traditional Christian Hymn |
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| He Leadeth Me |
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| He's Aye Kissing Me |
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| Hector The Hero |
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| Heeia |
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| Heidenroeslein |
Goethe's little poem about the encounter between a boy and a little rose have been set to music by several composers, including Franz Schubert. Obviously, this is not Schubert's arrangement, but I like it anyway. |
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| Helvetia Waltz |
From West Virginia |
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| Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau |
Welsh tune |
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| Henry Martin |
This song is based on a real pirate, only his name was Andrew Barton, not Henry Martin. The English king at the time gave Barton permission to attack Portuguese vessels, but then Barton and his brothers got carried away and started attacking English ships. Not a good move. An English fleet sent out by King Henry VIII captured Andrew Barton, and Barton was later beheaded. |
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| Hey Lolly, Lolly |
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| Higher Ground |
Traditional Christian Hymn |
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| Higher Ground |
Dulcimer tablature derived from hymn written by Johnson Oatman with music by Charles Gabriel in 1898. |
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| Higher Ground (key of D) |
Traditional Christian Hymn |
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| Highway to Heaven |
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| His Eye is on the Sparrow |
Hymn |
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| His Eye Is On The Sparrow |
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| His Eye is on the Sparrow |
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| Hobbies |
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| Hold On |
Haunting Phrygian tune see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbBPZU--UgE for a demonstration |
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| Hold The Fort |
Philip Bliss, 1870, Words anonymous 1890's, Arranged by Steve Smith |
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| Holly and the Ivy |
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| Holly Bears a Berry |
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| Holly Bears A Berry, The |
This Christmas carol also known as "St. Day Carol" is one of the many Cornish Christmas carols written in the 19th century. |
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| Holy Manna |
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| Holy Spirit Truth Divine |
Music 1623, Words Samuel Longfellow 1864, Arranged by Steve Smith |
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| Holy, Holy, Holy |
Traditional Christian Hymn |
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| Holy, Holy, Holy |
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| Home on the Range |
Music from 1873. My own arrangement, best for fingerpicking or flatpicking style. |
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| Home, sweet home |
A lovely tune by John Howard Payne / Henry Bishop, 1823. |
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| Homespun Dress |
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| Hometown Real - DDDG tuning |
Written by Mark Horning and Theron Quist. |
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| Hop Light Ladies |
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| Hopalong Peter |
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| Hopping John |
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| Hot Cross Buns |
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| House Carpenter |
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| House of the Rising Sun |
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| How Are Thy Servants Blest, O Lord |
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| How Can I Keep From Singing |
Music by Robert Lowry 1869
Maybe the first publication of the words was on August 7, 1868, in The New York Observer. Titled "Always Rejoicing", and attributed to "Pauline T."
This version is in DAA tuning. |
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| How Can I Keep From Singing |
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| How Can I Keep From Singing |
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| How Firm A Foundation |
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| How Great Thou Art |
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| How Lovely is Thy Dwelling Place |
Psalm 84, Arranged by Steve Smith |
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| Hunting the Buffalo |
Key of A - Capo 4 |
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| Hunting The Buffalo |
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| Huntsman's Chorus |
Operas and other classical music often incorporate folk tunes, but this one did just the opposite. The tune is from Carl Maria von Weber's opera Der Freischütz, first performed in Berlin in 1821. By 1826 this tune had already become a part of the English folk tradition, although it has changed a bit from the original operatic version. You can compare them in numerous videos online. What makes it interesting to me as a dulcimer player is that while fiddlers now play it in G, in the opera it is sung in D, so if a fiddler tells you you're playing it in the wrong key, you can tell him you're right! |
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| Hurree Hurroo (A) |
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| Hurree Hurroo (D) |
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| Hush Lil' Baby |
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| Hush Little Baby |
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| Hush Little Baby |
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| Huzzah For Liberty |
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| Hyfrydol |
Welsh tune |
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| I Am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger |
Traditional camp meeting song |
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| I Cried For Days |
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| I Dreamt I Dwelt In Marble Halls |
or The Gipsy Girl's Dream is a popular aria from The Bohemian Girl, an 1843 opera by Michael William Balfe, with lyrics by Alfred Bunn |
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| I Have Decided To Follow Jesus |
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| I Heard the Bells |
Traditional Christmas Melody |
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| I Know Where I'm Going |
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| I Know Whom I Have Believed |
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| I Love To Tell The Story |
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| I Love You Truly |
Written by Carrie Jacobs-Bond around 1895 and published in 1901 and again in 1906, Carrie sold a million copies of the sheet music. |
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| I Never Will Marry |
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| I Surrender All |
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| I Will Arise |
Old Appalachian Hymn |
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| I Will Hold You Close |
Original composition by Paul G. Sykes.
Lyrics are included on the sheet music.
Lyrics at taken directly from Isaiah 41. |
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| I Will Understand |
You can hear this song at http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_10668900 |
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| I Wish I Were Back in Ireland |
You can hear this song at http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_10668941 |
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| I Wonder As I Wander |
Chords to accompany vocal and Solo dulcimer versions |
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| I Wonder As I Wander |
Finding I Wonder As I Wander
Kentuckian John Jacob Niles, renowned scholar and collector of folk music, found the carol, I Wonder As I Wander, in July of 1933 in Murphy, NC on a field trip with his photographer friend, Doris Ulmann. Just by chance, he discovered a little band of itinerant revival street preachers on the steps of Murphy Methodist church, who had rigged a wooden platform on the back of a car, and were about to use it for preaching. Preacher Morgan was the leader, and Mr. Niles heard the song first sung by his daughter, Annie. As he records in his unpublished journal:
"Meanwhile I heard singing coming from the other side of the town square. On investigating, I discovered a revivalist group about to start preaching.....I sauntered over to get a closer look at Preacher Morgan and his entourage. A girl had stepped out to the edge of the little platform attached to the automobile. She began to sing. Her clothes were unbelievably dirty and ragged, and she, too, was unwashed. Her ash-blond hair hung down in long skeins....But, best of all, she was positively beautiful, and in her untutored way, she could sing. She smiled as she sang, smiled rather sadly, and sang only a single line of a song. The burden of her song had to do with wondering and wandering and the reasons for Christ's birth and death: "I wonder as I wander out under the sky how Jesus, the Savior was born for to die"... and then she stopped although I had thrown a silver quarter at her feet." "
Mr. Niles furiously transcribed this little tune into his field notebook, and then encouraged Annie Morgan to sing more. She must have been an astute businesswoman, because she sang for him seven more times, each time he gave her a silver quarter, and each time she revealed a little bit more of the song. He edited it and scored it for print in October, 1933, and he sang it publicly for the first time in December of that same year at the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, NC. Since that time, it has become one of the most popular and beloved American Christmas carols, arranged numerous times for choirs, soloists, orchestras, and handbells, and it has appeared in countless anthems and Christmas church cantatas. And it all began right here in Western North Carolina.
(Incidentally, at today's silver prices, Mr. Niles paid Annie Morgan $64 for I Wonder As I Wander - more money than she had ever seen at one time.) |
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| I Wonder When I Shall Be Married |
As sung by Jean Ritchie. An American version of the 17th century British song, "The Maidens sad complaint for want of a Husband." From Jean Ritchie's notes from Folk Songs of the Southern Appalachians: Our family has its worries. There were eleven girls born in our house, and only three boys, and that seemed to be pretty much the pattern all through the community. This little song the girls used to sing over the dishwashing, and by the time the older ones got up into their teens, it had come to have real meaning. By the time I came along, it was well established in our locality as "the Ritchie old-maid song." |
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| I'll Fly Away |
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| I'll Fly Away |
Simple beginner version. |
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| I'll Remember You, Love, In My Prayers |
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| I'm Going to Georgia |
Collected from Stella Shelton in Alleghany, NC on July 29, 1916 |
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| I'm Going To Georgia |
Collected from Stella Shelton by Sharp, 1916 (Folk Songs ofd the Southern Appalachians) |
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| I'm Just A Rebel Soldier |
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| I'm Nine Hundred Miles From My Home |
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| I've Been Working On The Railroad |
(The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You) |
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| I've Been Working On The Railroad - Melody and Harmony |
Melody and Harmony |
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| I've Got No Use For Women |
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| If I Were A Blackbird |
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| If You're Happy And You Know It |
Kid's activity tune |
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| If, On A Quiet Sea |
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| Ihr Kinderlein Kommet |
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| Ihr Kinderlein kommet |
German Christmas Tune |
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| In Forest and Meadow |
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| In The Bleak Mid Winter |
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| In The Bleak Midwinter |
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| In The Garden |
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| In the Good Old Summer Time |
Here are two tabs for ED: In the Good Old Summer Time (public domain -
1902) in DAA noter/drone style and DAD' fingerpicking style. I'm a new
mountain dulcimer player and did this as an exercise to get familiar with
the fretboard notes and chords. |
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| In The Pine |
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| In The Pines |
Blue Grass |
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| In The Pines |
Blue Grass |
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| In The Small Village of Bethlehem |
Hungarian Christmas Song. Melody and Harmony/ |
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| In the Smithy |
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| In the Sweet By & Bye |
Old Time Favorite |
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| In the sweet by and by |
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| Infant Holy |
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| Infant Holy, Infant Lowly |
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| Irish Cabbage |
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| Is Your All On The Altar |
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| It Came Upon the Midnight Clear |
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| It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (D) |
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| It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (G) |
Arranged by Shirley Gullion, submitted with her permission |
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| It Don't Matter to Me |
Words: Autumn Perreault (aka AutumnStrings) except for 3rd verse which I wrote
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxX8YB43_qs |
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| It Is Well With My Soul |
Novice level |
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| It Is Well With My Soul |
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| It Rained A Mist |
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| J'avais un Camarade |
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| J'avais un Camarade (Fingerpicked) |
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| Jacob's Ladder |
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| Jai Passe Devant ta Porte |
Cajun tune! (handwritten tab) |
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| Jam On Gerry?s Rocks |
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| Jasmine Flower |
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| Jealous Lover |
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| Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair |
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| Jerusalem My Happy Home |
Hymn |
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| Jerusalem My Happy Home |
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| Jesus Borned in Bethlea |
From "American Folk Songs for Children" by Ruth Crawford Seeger |
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| Jesus Lover of My Soul |
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| Jesus the very thought of Thee |
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| Jesus, Jesus Rest Your Head |
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| Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross |
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| Jigging with Joe (Old Joe Clark) |
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| Jim Along Josie |
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| Jingle Bells |
Christmas Carol |
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| Jingle Bells |
Three-part arrangement: Melody, Harmony, and Bass |
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| Jock O'Hazeldean |
Jock O'Hazeldean is an old Scottish song first published in the early 1800's. This version is in DAD tuning and does not require a 6+ fret but some of the melody is on the middle string. |
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| Jock O'Hazeldean (closer to traditional) |
This tablature file contains DAA, DAD, CGG, and CGC versions of Jock O'Hazeldean and tries to hold a little bit closer to what some might consider the traditional (or better known) melody. Also included are 4/4 versions that were derived from versions collected as sung in 1960. The listen file includes a verse in DAA played with a noter, the second verse in DAA with chords, and the third verse in DAD with chords. |
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| Jock O'Hazeldean DAA |
This version of Jock O'Hazeldean is in DAA tuning. The song can be played on just the melody strings in melody drone fashion, so the listen file includes a verse played with a noter. Playing all of the chords in the chord melody style requires a 6+ fret for the bass string. |
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| John Henry |
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| John Peel |
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| John Stenson's #1 |
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| John Stenson's #1 |
From Kevin Burke's album "If the Cap Fits" |
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| John Stenson's #2 |
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| John Stenson's #2 |
From Kevin Burke's album "If the Cap Fits". This is quite different than the JS#2 most folks play. |
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| John Stinson #2 |
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| Johnny Todd |
This children's play (skipping) song appears in Frank Kidson's "Traditional Tunes: A Collection of Ballad Airs" (1891). Kidson collected it in Liverpool, England "from a singer of deficient memory." |
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| Johnson Boys |
An old-time tune, with lyrics from at least the 1920's but the tune is a fiddle tune that is much older. The lyrics vary by state, but definitely a tune that would have been found around NC 100 years ago. |
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| Johnson's Motor Car |
The song, based on a real event in 1920, describes how an Irish Republican Army unit needed transport to a town over fifty miles away, but had no car to carry them. They decided to call out Doctor Johnston and then ambush him and his car at a railway bridge and commandeer the car for the IRA. The song was very popular in Ireland in the 1920s before being rediscovered and covered by bands like The Dubliners and Flying Column, although the more modern versions have slightly different lyrics. [Wikipedia] |
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| Jolly Old Saint Nicholas |
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| Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho |
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| Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho - Em |
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| Joy to the World |
With simplified chords. |
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| Joy to the World |
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| Joy To The World (DAA) |
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| Joy Unspeakable |
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| Joyful Joyful We Adore Thee |
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| Joys of Quebec |
French Canadian Reel |
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| Juba This and Juba That |
From "American Folk Songs for Children" by Ruth Crawford Seeger |
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| June Apple |
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| June Apple |
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| Just a Closer Walk With Thee |
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| Just a Closer Walk With Thee |
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| Just a Closer Walk with Thee |
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| Just As I Am |
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| Just As I Am - Melody and Harmony |
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| Just as I Am, Without One Plea |
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| Just Over in the Glory Land |
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| Kate Dalrymple |
Famous old Scottish reel, pipe tune, dance |
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| Kathleen O'Moore |
Old Irish, Arranged by Steve Smith |
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| Katie Bairdie |
a traditional Scottish children's song |
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| Katushya - Melody and Harmony |
Russian Christmas Song |
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| Keep The Home Fires Burning |
World War I song |
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| Kelvingrove |
This version with DAD and DAA tablature along with lyrics for all of the verses. |
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| Keys of Heaven |
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| Kind Miss |
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| Kind Sir |
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| Kitty Magee |
Irish Folk |
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| Kneel at the Cross |
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| Kum Ba Ya |
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| La Bamba |
Contains lead instrument, accompaniment and bass dulcimers. |
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| La Cucaracha |
Mexican folk song. |
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| La Marseillaise |
French National Anthem |
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| La Paloma |
DAC Tune |
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| Land of Hope and Glory |
British Patriotic Song.
Based upon Pomp and Circumstance - March No. 5 in C
by Sir Edward Elgar. |
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| Land of Rest |
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| Land of the Silver Birch |
Traditional Canadian Folk Song |
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| Larry O'Gaff |
Traditional Irish Jig |
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| Lasst uns Froh und Munter sein |
German Christmas Tune |
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| Laura |
Reel from the Hardy Family manuscripts, Dorset, 19th century
found at The Traditional Tune Archive: http://www.tunearch.org/wiki/TTA |
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| Lavender's Blue |
12th Song from 1672 - 1685, arranged by Steve Smith |
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| Le Carillon de Vendome |
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| Leaning on the Everlasting Arms |
Gospel Hymn |
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| Leatherwing Bat |
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| Leaving Lismore |
Leaving Lismore, traditional Scottish tune, also known as La Valse Ecossaise. |
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| Leaving of Liverpool |
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| Lee County Two-Step |
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| Leise rieselt der Schnee |
German Tune DAD - DAA - DGD included |
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| Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence Dm |
This version is in Dm and tablature is for CGC and DAC mountain dulcimer tunings. The LISTEN file starts with a DAC dulcimer and the second time through it is played with a CGC dulcimer. |
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| Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence Em |
This version is in Em and tablature is for DAD and EBD mountain dulcimer tunings. The LISTEN file starts with a EBD dulcimer and the second time through it is played with a DAD dulcimer. |
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| Let Me Call You Sweetheart |
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| Letter Edged In Black |
Traditional Folk Tune |
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| Liberty |
Traditional Fiddle Tune |
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| Life is LIke a Mountain Railroad |
was looking for the tab for this, and couldn't find it, so I ended up working it out for myself. The version I'm submitting is designed for noter/drone playing, it only has one line of notes. I'm actually playing in GDD, but DAA should be good also. |
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| Light O' Love |
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| Lily of the Valley |
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| Limerick Waltz |
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| Lincoln and Liberty |
Civil War Tune |
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| Line Dance Boogie |
Original composition by Paul G. Sykes. |
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| Little Bird, Little Bird |
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| Little Bird, Little Bird |
Children's song |
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| Little Brown Jug |
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| Little Brown Jug |
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| Little Cabin in the Woods |
Original song written after playing at a wedding that had an old cabin that the couple were restoring |
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| Little Dutch Girl |
No, not "I Am A Little Dutch Girl" or the George Morgan 1950's country song. This is an old-time fiddle tune from the Ozarks. The "Fast Version" on the website was fun this time. I've capoed up to "A", the normal key where fiddlers play it, which actually make it easier to play. I'm playing along with a YouTube video of Mike Compton, Joe Newberry and Rafe Stefanini playing it on November 20, 2010 at The Front Hall in Philadelphia. So I can't say the clapping at the end was for me, by any means! |
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| Little Gobbelin |
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| Little Liza Jane |
Melody and Counter Melody |
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| Little Liza's Cabbage |
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| Little Moses |
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| Little Rosewood Casket |
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| Little Sir Hugh |
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| Little Tree Toad - El Coquito |
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| Liza Jane |
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| Llanfair |
Welsh tune |
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| Llangloffan |
Welsh tune |
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| Lo How a Rose E're Blooming |
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| Lo, how a Rose |
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| Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming |
Arrangement by Carole Ehrman |
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| Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming |
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| Loch Lomand |
Loch Lomond is a traditional Scottish song that first appeared in in Vocal Melodies of Scotland 1841. |
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| London Bridge Is Falling Down |
Traditional Kid's Tune |
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| Lonesome Cowboy |
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| Long Long Ago CGC |
One part of the melody requires playing the middle string open and the rest of the melody can be played on the melody string(s) without any half frets. |
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| Long Long Ago CGG |
The melody fits on the melody string(s) without any half frets. If playing chords, one chord requires the 6+ fret on the bass string. |
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| Long Long Ago DAA |
The melody fits on the melody string(s) without any half frets. If playing chords, one chord requires the 6+ fret on the bass string. |
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| Long Long Ago DAD |
One part of the melody requires playing the middle string open and the rest of the melody can be played on the melody string(s) without any half frets. |
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| Long, Long Ago |
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| Look, Mister Cuckoo |
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| Lord Bateman |
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| Lord I Lift My Soul To Thee |
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| Lord Keep Us Steadfast In Thy Word |
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| Lord Lovel |
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| Lord Randal |
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| Lord Thomas of Winesberry |
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| Lord, You Have Come to the Lake Shore |
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| Lord, You Have Come to the Lakeshore |
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| Lorena |
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| Los Cuatro Generales |
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| Lova Lova Line |
This Scandinavian folksong I heard sung by Norwegian singer Kim André Rysstad on the album Big Basco by Danish group Basco. It's a simple but beautiful song that may be Norwegian, but Google thinks the lyrics are in Danish. There are two songs by the same name, and as usual, you can hear versions including this one on YouTube. "Line" is a shortened form of a name such as Caroline. The song is asking Line to keep the sun shining on forests and trees, on the white glacier snow and "even on Virgin Mary's knee"! If you can help me out with more exact details, let me know, It's been tough finding information on this one! |
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| Love Came Down at Christmas |
Christmas |
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| Love is Little |
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| Love Round |
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| Love's Old Sweet Song |
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| Lovely Moon |
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| Lover's Cuckoo |
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| Lowe Bonnie |
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| Lullaby |
Traditional Irish Lullaby |
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| Lully, Lullay |
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| Lustig ist das Zigeunerleben.mid |
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| Lydia Pinkham |
In "The American Songbag", Carl Sandburg writes of this song, "Only two of the many verses of this song are presented here. As a satire the piece has its points and touches more than the surface of current life, manners and morals." I included a couple of other verses found commonly online, but there are many others out there, not all of which can be share in polite company!
Speaking of company, you can still buy Lydia Pinkham Herbal Tablet Supplement on Amazon, and it even refers to it as the same product she initially sold in 1875. No word, however, of some of the more colorful cures mentioned in the other verses of the song! |
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| Lynchburg Town |
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| Ma'oz Tur |
Traditional Hannukah song, arranged by Steve Smith |
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| Madam, I Have Gold and Silver |
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| Madison County Jubilee |
Original tune in the fingerpicking style |
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| Maggots in the Sheep Hide |
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| Maggots in the Sheep Hide |
Played by fiddler Sarah Armstrong on November 18, 1943 near Derry, PA |
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| Magpie's Nest |
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| Mairi's Wedding |
Scottish folk tune |
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| Mallebrok |
This is a tune well-known in Denmark, but it came from a popular early-1700's French tune, Marlbrough s'en va-t-en guerre which itself was around before the lyrics were added. If you listen closely, you can hear how it later evolved into For He's A Jolly Good Fellow! |
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| Many Thousand Go |
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| Maoz Tzur |
"Maoz Tzur" is without any doubt the most popular Chanukah [Hanukkah] song. The Maoz Tzur tune that is by now considered to be "traditional" in most parts of the Jewish world, is an adaptation of a German folk song. |
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| Margaret Ann Robertson |
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| Marilla's Lesson |
Sacred Harp Song |
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| Marine Hymn |
Music by Jaques Offenbach |
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| Married to a Mermaid |
According to William Chappell's 'Popular Music of the Olden Time' Vol 2 pp 686-689, the tune was written by Dr Thomas Arne for the masque "Alfred" and given its first performance on August 1st, 1740. |
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| Mary Had A Baby |
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| Mary Had A Little Lamb |
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| Mary Hamilton |
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| May Damsels Dance |
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| May The Road Rise To Meet You |
An ancient Irish blessing |
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| May The Road Rise Up To Meet You |
Ancient Gaelic Benediction |
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| Maypole Dance |
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| McFarland's Daughter |
Original composition by Paul G. Sykes. |
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| McNamara's Band |
Traditional Irish Song |
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| Meirionydd |
Welsh tune |
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| Memories of Springtime |
Original composition by Paul G. Sykes. |
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| Merrily Kiss the Quaker |
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| Merriweather |
A nice Celtic reel |
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| Merry Widow Waltz |
From the Operetta, The Merry Widow - 1905, by Franz Lehar
Normally,only the first 31 measures are played. The song is presented in its entirety. |
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| Mes Parents |
Four-part arrangement: Low Melody, High Melody, Low Harmony, and High Harmony |
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| Michael Turner's Waltz |
Mozart, Six German Dances KV 536 No. 2. Here's one you can call English, German or Austrian! In the 1840's, Michael Turner of West Sussex in England included this in one of his manuscript books of folk dances and tunes, but without attribution. Most likely he heard in concert Mozart's "Six German Dances", written in 1788. This version is almost identical to Mozart's, with minor changes to make it similar to the most common versions being played since the 1980's, but changed from "G" to "D". |
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| Michael, row the boat ashore |
Spiritual, about 1862 |
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| Midnight on the Water |
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| Minstrel Boy |
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| Miss Thompson |
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| Miss Welch |
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| Mississippi Moonlight |
Mississippi Moonlight; original composition by Paul G. Sykes, 2018, in DAA tuning (but can easily be played in DAD tuning as well). |
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| Mississippi Sawyer |
Fiddle Tune |
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| Mississippi Sawyer |
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| Mist Covered Mountains |
Traditional Scottish tune |
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| Mister Rabbit |
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| Mo Ghile Mear |
My Gallant Darling is an old Irish song, written in the Irish language by Seán Clárach Mac Domhnaill in the 18th century. It is a lament by the Gaelic goddess Éire for Bonnie Prince Charlie, who was then in exile. |
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| Modern Mountain Waltz |
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| Mohee |
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| Mohee |
Collected in NC in 1966 |
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| Molly Malone - Cockles and Mussels |
Irish song by James Yorkston, about 1883. I am not sure about the melody and rhythm as I just wrote it down as I learned it from friends who sang it. |
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| Moonshine |
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| More About Jesus |
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| More Pretty Girls Than One |
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| Morgen Kinder wird?s was geben |
German Tune |
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| Morning Comes Early |
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| Morning Has Broken |
Four-part arrangement: Low Melody, Harmony, High Melody, and Flatpicking |
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| Morning Has Broken |
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| Morning Song |
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| Morning Song |
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| Mountains of Mourne |
An Irish Folk song. |
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| Mowing the Barley |
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| Mrs McGrath |
A catchy tune. I think it was Burl Ives I heard sing it many years ago. According to Google, the last verse refers to the Spanish theater of the Napoleonic Wars.
The song is sometimes called \"Mrs McGraw\", which I understand is the proper Irish pronunciation of the name.
Jim Kuder |
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| Muss i denn |
Muss i denn is a traditional Swabian song first published in 1827. This tune requires a 6+ fret in order to play the melody. Muss i denn with some minor changes was used for the song "Wooden Heart", which was sung by Elvis Presley in the movie "GI Blues". |
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| Muss i denn DAA |
Muss i denn is a traditional Swabian song first published in 1827. This tune does not require any half frets to play the melody but it does require a 6+ fret in order to play one of the chords. Muss i denn with some minor changes was used for the song "Wooden Heart", which was sung by Elvis Presley in the movie "GI Blues". |
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| My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean |
Folk song - It might refer to "Bonnie Prince Charlie" after his defeat at the battle of Culloden |
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| My Brave Canoe |
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| My Cheatin' Parts - Gray Cat on a Tennessee Farm - Cross with Neighbors, Version A |
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| My Clinch Mountain Home |
DAA tab |
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| My Country, 'Tis of Thee |
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| My Dream of You |
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| My Faith Looks Up To Thee |
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| My Hat, It Has Three Corners - Melody and Harmony |
German Folk Song. Melody and Harmony. |
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| My Hope Is Built |
Traditional Christian Hymn |
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| My Jesus, I Love Thee |
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| My Love Is A Rider |
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| My Mind It Is Uneasy |
This is an old traditional Irish tune I learned from "Irish Peasant Songs", a collection of tunes by P. W. Joyce that was published in 1906. The tablature file includes a CGC version with a capo, a DAG version, and a DAA version. |
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| My Shepherd Will Supply My Need |
Appalachian Melody |
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| My Wild Irish Rose |
Song in Key of D |
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| My Wild Irish Rose |
Song in Key of G |
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| Nacogdoches Waltz |
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| Natchez Under The Hill |
A traditional civil war fiddle tune, about the seedy waterfront red light district under the bluff of Natchez, Mississippi. |
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| Near The Cross |
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| Near the Cross |
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| Near the Cross (harmony) |
Hymn |
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| Near the Cross (melody) |
Hymn |
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| Nearer My God to Thee |
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| Nearer My God to Thee |
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| Ned of the Hill |
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| Never Weather-beaten Sail |
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| New Orleans |
Old fiddle tune that dates back to the Civil War era, learned from Don Pedi. |
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| New River Train |
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| New Year's Day |
Scottish song from Niel Gow , circa 1799 |
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| Nifty Renaissancy-Sounding Tune Cooked Up While Waiting for a Clouded Out Observing Session |
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| Nightingale |
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| Ninety-nine Year Waltz |
Cajun Tune! |
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| Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika |
Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika (Lord, Bless Africa) was composed in 1897 by Enoch Sontonga, a teacher at a mission school in Johannesburg. It was first recorded in London in 1923, and became a popular church hymn also adopted as the anthem at political meetings. For decades it was regarded as the national anthem of South Africa by the oppressed and was sung as an act of defiance against the apartheid regime.
A proclamation in 1994 stipulated that both Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika and Die Stem (the Call of South Africa) would be the national anthems of South Africa. In 1996 a shortened, combined version of the two anthems was released as the new National Anthem.
This anthem was adapted as "Siunaa koko maailmaa" or "Lord Bless the Whole World" into the hymnal of the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church as Verse #501 with a text written by Jaakko Löytty in 1985.
If you enter the Finnish name on YouTube you'll see a version with a guy looking up in a train station. This is the moving video that made me fall in love with the tune. Jaakko Löytty is the first singer. |
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| No, Sir |
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| Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen - Melody and Harmony |
Spiritual - Circa 1867 |
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| Noreen Bawn |
A song of emigration and sorrow. |
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| Nothing Between |
Traditional Christian Hymn |
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| Nothing But The Blood |
Traditional Christian Hymn |
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| Now Nature Hangs Her Mantle Green |
A Robert Burns poem completed on June 6, 1790 as "Lament Of Mary, Queen Of Scots, On The Approach Of Spring". Burns wrote in a 1791 letter, "Misfortune seems to take a peculiar pleasure in darting her arrows against "Honest Men and bonnie Lasses." |
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| Now Sing We, Now Rejoice |
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| O Beautiful for Spacious Skies (America) |
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| O Christmas Tree |
Must be the Cotton-Eye Joe of Christmas carols - everyone's verses were different. I just accumulated all 12 verses. |
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| O Come All Ye Faithful |
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| O Come All Ye Faithful |
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| O Come, Little Children |
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| O Come, O Come, Emmanuel |
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| O For A Thousand Tongues |
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| O For A Thousand Tongues To Sing |
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| O For a Thousand Tounges to Sing |
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| O God Beneath Thy Guiding Hand |
Music: Duke Street, attributed to John Hatton, 1793. Words: Leonard Bacon, 1833.
According to Hymnary.org, "Leonard Bacon, D.D., was born in Detroit (where his father was a missionary to the Indians), February 19, 1802, and educated at Yale college and at Andover. In 1825 he was ordained Pastor of the Centre Church, New Haven, and retained that charge until 1866, when he was appointed Professor of Theology in Yale Divinity School."
"O God, Beneath They Guiding Hand is a favorite American Anniversary hymn. It is abbreviated and altered from his hymn, 'The Sabbath morn is as bright and calm,' which he wrote for the Bicentenary of New Haven, 1833. In this revised form it was first published and appointed 'For the twenty-second of December.'" |
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| O Holy Night (D) |
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| O Holy Night (G) |
Uses the 1+ fret |
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| O how I love Jesus |
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| O Little Town of Bethlehem |
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| O Little Town of Bethlehem |
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| O Little Town of Bethlehem |
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| O Little Town of Bethlehem |
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| O Sacred Head |
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| O Sole Mio |
O sole mio is the Neapolitan equivalent of standard Italian Il mio sole and translates literally as "my sunshine". |
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| O Store Gud |
Swedish Folk Melody |
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| O The Deep Deep Love Of Jesus |
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| O To Be Like Thee |
Traditional Christian Hymn |
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| O'Carolan's Concerto |
dadd format, four-string equidistant |
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| O'Carolan's Farewell (four string version) |
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| Ode to Joy |
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| Ode To Joy - Melody and Counter Melody |
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| Of the Fathers Love Begotten |
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| Off To California |
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| Oft in the Stilly Night (Low) |
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| Oft in the Stilly Night_High (High) |
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| Oh Come, Oh come Emanel |
This tune is one of the oldest Christmas tunes written. I made this arrangement for the Public Domain. |
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| Oh Shenandoah |
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| Oh Susanna |
A Steven C. Foster tune |
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| Oh Where, Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone |
Civil War Tune |
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| Oh, How Lovely Is The Evening |
A 3-part round originally from the German, "O wie wohl ist mir am Abend." Popular throughout Europe and the United States as early as the beginning of the 19th century. It is included in various song collections in English, German, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Italian, Russian and probably many other languages. |
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| Oh, No, John |
A song with this theme, The Dumb Lady, Or, No no not I, I'le answer, was printed on a broadside circa 1672-84. It also appears in an earlier manuscript (circa 1635-40), but the lyrics are unreadable. It is also sometimes known as The Spanish Merchant's Daughter. (Description from contemplator.com) |
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| Oh! Susanna |
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| Old Black Joe |
Steven C Foster Folk Tune |
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| Old DanTucker |
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| Old Folks At Home |
Steven C Foster tune "Way Down Upon The Suwannee River" |
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| Old Joe Clark |
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| Old Joe Clark |
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| Old Joe Clark |
Traditional Southern Folk Fiddle Tune |
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| Old Joe Clark - Melody and Harmony |
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| Old Joe Clark 1 |
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| Old MacDonald Does a Jig |
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| Old MacDonald Had A Farm |
Traditional Kid's Tune from England |
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| Old MacDonald Learns to Waltz |
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| Old Man and the Door |
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| Old Molly Hare |
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| Old Molly Hare |
Related to the Celtic tune, 'Fairy Dance' |
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| Old Mountain Dew |
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| Old North State |
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| Old Rosin the Bow |
Traditional. First printed in 1838. Here is a version of the melody as printed in 1852. Own arrangement. |
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| Old Rugged Cross |
The Old Rugged Cross has two incidental notes that require a 6.5 and 7.5 fret. This version offers substitute notes for dulcimers that might not have the half frets. There is a page with sheet music and chords and a page with just the text and fret numbers. |
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| Old Town Band |
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| Old Woman |
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| Omega |
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| Omie Wise |
A North Carolina murder ballad in the tradition of English folk songs. In 1808 near Asheboro, NC, Johnathan Lewis murdered nineteen year old Naomi Wise. He had promised to marry her, but then he had the chance to marry another and move up in society, and he killed Naomi. He escaped before conviction, but confessed on his deathbed. |
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| On a Bridge in Campbell County - HD |
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| On Christmas Night |
Old English Traditional Carol |
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| On The Baltic |
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| On the Banks of Cairnie Burn |
An original piece in the style of a Scottish Air |
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| On Top of Old Smokey |
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| On Top Of Old Smokey |
Traditional Folk Tune |
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| On Top Of Spaghetti |
Traditional Kids Tune |
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| Once I Loved a Maiden Fair |
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| Once In David's Royal City |
Irish Christmas Carol |
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| Once-Pa'am Achat |
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| One Hundred Pipers |
A song about Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobite uprising of 1745. |
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| One More River |
As with any other song that's been around for a while, this one has lots of variations. This isn't the Jimmy Swaggart version, but more likely one you might have sung in Sunday School as a child. |
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| One Starry Night - Traditional Irish Traveller Song |
A traditional Irish Traveller song. |
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| One-Two-Three-Four-Five-Six |
A jig teaching song in both drones and chord melody. |
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| Only Trust Him |
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| Oot Pik Waltz |
Galic |
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| Oravan Pesä (The Squirrel Nest) |
Song from Finland. Music by Pekka Juhani Hannikainen. Arranged and tabbed by Peter Widenmeyer 2014 |
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| Over In The Meadow |
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| Over the Hills and Far Away |
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| Over the River and through the Woods |
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| Oxen Song |
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| Pajalaulu (Finnish folk song) |
Folk song from Finland. It describes the hard work of a smith in his forge. A cheerful melody anyway.
Traditional song. Own arrangement. |
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| Pale Moonlight |
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| Panis Angelicus |
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| Pap's Old Billy Goat |
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| Park Avenue |
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| Parting Glass |
Definitely a Traditional tune. Maybe earliest versions come from Scotland in the 1600's but this version might be considered more of an Irish version. This version in B Minor and does not require a capo. |
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| Pastourelle |
The pastourelle is a typically Old French lyric form concerning the romance of a shepherdess. |
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| Patrick Spenser |
This is a song that John Jacob Niles collected from 85-year-old Christopher Bell in 1934 near Gatlinburg, TN. Bell had learned it from his grandparents, who moved to Georgia from Eastern North Carolina at the end of the 18th century. It's a variation on Child Ballad No. 58, "Sir Patrick Spens". Comparing the tunes and lyrics is interesting, though. Quite a bit changed in the trip across the sea and the years! |
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| Paul's Little Hen |
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| Pay Me My Money Down |
A work song, "Pay Me My Money Down" originated among the stevedores working in the Georgia Sea Islands. It was collected by Lydia Parrish and published in her 1942 book, "Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands." It was performed and popularized by The Weavers and The Kingston Trio in the 1950's. A version was played by the Grateful Dead in the 1960's. It was also a single and video released by Bruce Springsteen in 2006. The melody is much older and is used in other songs. |
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| Peace Round |
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| Peltomies (Finnish folk song) |
Folk song from Finland. It describes the farmer's work during the year.
Traditional song. Own arrangement. |
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| Perfidia |
All parts can be played on a 3-string dulcimer, although the lead would sound best if played by a hammered dulcimer. A guitar can substitute for the second dulcimer, too. |
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| Piri-miri-dictum Domini |
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| Plaisir D'Amour |
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| Planxty Fanny Power |
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| Plasir D'Amour |
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| Poland Will Not Be Lost |
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| Polly Wolly Doodle |
Traditional Kid's Tune |
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| Poor Howard's Dead and Gone |
A "Sukey Jump" song that comes from the singing of Huddie Ledbetter - "Lead Belly" - in the 1930's and 40's. Also sung by The Weavers in the 1950's and Eddy Arnold in the 1960's. "Sukey Jump" is a long obsolete, Southern Black American colloquial referent for country dances. The word "sukey" rhymes with "LOOK ee".
Most of the information about sukey jumps comes from several 1939/1940 recordings of Folk/Blues singer/musician Huddie Ledbetter (Leadbelly) as well as interviews of Leadbelly that were conducted & recorded by folklorist/ collector Alan Lomax. From Leadbelly's comments, it appears that the term "sukey jumps" was used in the Deep South prior to the end of slavery in the United States (1865) and at least until 1940. In 1935 her book "Mules To Men" about life for Black people in rural Florida, Black folklorist Zora Neale Hurston also used the term "sukey Jump" as a referent for a dance attended by Black people which was held outdoors around a bonfire. |
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| Poor Married Man |
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| Poor Working Girl |
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| Possum up a Gum Stump |
Three different versions: original, simple, and advanced |
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| Precious Memories |
Traditional |
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| Prelude in Bm |
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| Prelude to "Te Deum" |
A German prelude to J.S. Bach's Cantata - Te Deum |
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| Prince William |
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| Psalm1 |
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| Psalm11 |
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| Psalm23 |
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| Pull for the Shore |
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| Pumpkinvine Creek |
Original composition by Paul G. Sykes. |
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| Putting On the Style |
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| Quaker's Courtship |
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| Queensland Matilda |
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| Ragland Road |
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| Ragtime Annie |
Traditional American Fiddle Tune |
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| Railroad Bill |
The legend of Railroad Bill arose in the winter of 1895, along the Louisville and Nashville Railroad line in southern Alabama. Based loosely on the exploits of an African American outlaw known as "Railroad Bill," tales of his brief but action-filled career on the wrong side of the law have been preserved in song, fiction, and theater. He has been variously portrayed as a "Robin Hood" character, a murderous criminal, a shape shifter, and a nameless victim of the Jim Crow South. L&N detectives claimed he was a man named Morris Slater, and some residents of Brewton believed him to be a man called Bill McCoy who was shot by local law enforcement. |
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| Railroader For Me |
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| Rakes of Kildare |
Nice jig |
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| Rakes of Mallow |
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| Rattlesnake |
From singing of Aunt Molly Jackson, Clay County, KY. Collected and arranged by Alan Lomax, 'Folksongs of North America', 1960. |
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| Red Haired Boy |
Irish Folk Tune |
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| Red Is The Rose |
Irish Folk Song |
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| Red Light Saloon |
This is a song of loggers across the northern US. 'The Folk Song Abcdedary' in 1966 stated, 'most versions of the song are unprintable,' so this is the version they included. There was a Red Light Saloon in Muskegon, Michigan in the 1870's, but they say it's not clear the song was written about it. |
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| Red River Valley |
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| Red River Valley |
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| Red River Valley |
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| Red River Valley V2 |
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| Red Wing |
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| Red Wing |
traditional fiddle tune |
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| Reel of Tullochgorum |
A Scottish tune which later became popular in England and the US as Jamie Allen. Northumbrian musician Jamie Allen (c. 1734-1810) was a famous small pipes player; he was also somewhat of a rogue, having been a multiple army deserter, bigamist and felon. |
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| Remember the Days When We Were Young |
Original tune about an old man pining for the simpler times of his youth |
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| Renfro Valley |
Traditional tune |
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| Reuben Ranzo |
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| Reuben's Train |
Traditional |
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| Rhosymedre |
Welsh tune |
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| Riding in the Buggy, Miss Mary Jane |
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| Riding on a Load of Hay |
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| Ring The Banjo |
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| Ring, Ring The Banjo |
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| Road to Lisdoonvarna |
E Dorian tune played in DAD without using a capo. Arrangement contains melody and backup parts |
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| Road to Lisdoonvarna |
Traditional Celtic tune |
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| Road To The Isles |
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| Road To The Isles |
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| Robin Hood And Little John |
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| Rock of Ages |
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| Rock of Ages |
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| Rock the Cradle, Joe |
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| Rock the Cradle, Joe |
Good accompaniment or a fancy version |
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| Rock the Cradle, Joe |
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| Rocking Alone in My Old Rocking Chair |
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| Roll on the Ground |
This old-time tune is also known as "Big Ball's in Town" and was borrowed by Woodie Guthrie for "Miss Pavilchenko". It even mentions Asheville! |
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| Rollin' In My Sweet Baby's Arms |
Bluegrass |
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| Rolling Down To Old Maui |
A Whaling Song. |
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| Romanze |
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| Root Hog or Die |
Arranged by Steve Smith
Colorado - 1856 |
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| Rose of Mooncoin - Melody and Harmony |
Irish ballad of love lost. |
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| Rose of Sharon Waltz |
Gorgeous Tune |
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| Rose of Tralee |
Melody and Harmony |
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| Rosewood Casket (page 1) |
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| Rosin the Beau |
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| Rosin the Beau |
Irish Wake Song |
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| Rothbury Hills |
A Northumbrian slow air |
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| Round The Bay Of Mexico |
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| Rousseau's Dream |
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| Row, Row, Row Your Boat |
Traditional Kids Song |
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| Run Mountain |
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| Sabbath Medley |
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| Sackpiplat |
A Swedish Bagpipe Tune |
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| Sailing in the Boat |
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| Sailing in the Boat |
Collected in CT |
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| Sailor On The Sea |
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| Saint Ann's Reel |
Traditional |
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| Saint Ann's Reel (page 2) |
Traditional |
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| Saint Martins |
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| Saint Patrick's Day in the Morning |
This version is in DAD tuning and some of the melody is played on the middle string. |
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| Saint Patrick's Day in the Morning DAA |
This version is in DAA tuning and all of the melody is played on the melody string(s). |
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| Saint Patrick's Day in the Morning in G |
This version can be played in DAD tuning with a capo on the 3rd fret. |
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| Sakura - The Cherry Blossom Song |
Traditional Japanese |
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| Sallie Ann |
Fiddle Tune |
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| Sally Ann |
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| Sally Slapped me with a Flounder |
I learned this tune from Carp Camp. It is making the rounds at KY dulcimer gatherings. |
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| Sally, Let You Bangs Hang Down |
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| Salty Dog |
"Salty Dog Blues" is an early 1900's folk song in the public domain. The oldest recordings of the song credit Papa Charlie Jackson, who adapted the song directly from the African-American tradition.
During the 1920s and 30s many country performers claimed they wrote this and other well-known songs. This was a customary practice because the royalties meant big money in some cases. If you check online, there seem to be as many interpretations of the lyrics as there are recordings! |
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| Samanthra |
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| Samiotisa |
Arranged by Steve Smith
Greek Folk Song |
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| Santa Lucia in D |
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| Santy |
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| Sarasponda |
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| Savior Like a Shepherd |
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| Savior Like a Shepherd Lead Us |
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| Savior of the Nations, Come |
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| Scarborough Fair |
Not the Simon & Garfunkel version. This ballad is related to The Elfin Knight (Child Ballad #2) and dates to the mid 1600s or earlier. |
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| Schlof Bobeli |
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| Schneefl?ckchen Wei?r?ckchen |
German Christmas Tune |
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| Scotland the Brave |
Traditional Scottish Song |
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| Scraping Up Sand |
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| Sedauny |
Welsh Christmas Carol |
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| Send the Light |
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| Senora Santana |
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| Señora Santana |
Cuban children's song |
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| Separation of Soul and Body |
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| Seven Belssing of Mary |
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| Shady Grove |
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| Shady Grove |
In Dm for DAD dulcimer with 1+ fret, no capo |
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| Shady Grove |
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| Shady Grove in DAC |
This tab file includes the basic fret numbers for playing the melody in DAC tuning along with some suggested fret numbers to play while singing. |
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| Shady Grove in DAD |
This tab file has 3 pages that show mountain dulcimer chords for playing chords while singing and tablature for playing chord/melody style. |
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| Shall We Gather at The River |
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| She Hasn't The Knack |
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| She Is Far From The Land |
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| She Moved Through The Fair |
Beautiful Traditional Irish Melody |
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| She'll Be Coming 'round the Mountain - Melody and Harmony |
Melody and Harmony |
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| She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain |
Traditional tune |
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| Sheep Fast Asleep |
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| Sheep May Safely Graze |
Arrangement of the first part of this song. The rest of the song is way too chromatic to be played on the MD. This song is from "The Hunting Cantata" by J.S. Bach. However, it is often considered a Christmas song. |
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| Shenandoah |
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| Shendoah - Melody and Harmony |
Traditional American Folk Song |
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| Shenendoah (Fingerpicked) |
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| Shenendoah (Strummed) |
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| Shine Calm and Bright |
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| Shine On, Harvest Moon |
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| Shoot The Buffalo |
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| Shortnin' Bread |
Traditional Folk Tune |
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| Shove That Pig's Foot a Little Further into the Fire |
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| Si Bheag Si Mohr |
O'Carolan tune meaning "So Big So Little" about a war between fairies that live on a big hill versus fairies living on a small hill. A beautiful melody, great for Irish/Celtic gigs. |
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| Silent Night |
Three part arrangement |
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| Silent Night |
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| Silent Night |
Joseph Mohr and Franz Gruber version |
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| Silent Night, Holy Night |
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| Silver and Gold Two-step |
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| Simple Gifts |
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| Simple Gifts |
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| Sing We Now of Christmas |
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| Sing We Now Of Christmas |
Traditional French carol also known as "Noel Nouvelet". |
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| Sing Your Way Home |
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| Single-Footin' Horse |
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| Sir Donkey |
A thirteenth century hymn (originally 'Orientis Partibus') used in Christmas pageants which evolved into 'The Friendly Beasts.' Here, not only is the donkey the bearer of the Virgin to the manger, but he also brings frankincense and myrrh. |
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| Siuil A Ruin (Go, My Love) |
An old Irish tune. |
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| Sixes and Eights |
A simple jig. |
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| Skip to My Lou |
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| Skunk in the Collard Patch |
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| Skye Boat Song |
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| Skye Boat Song |
This is a simple melody only version of Skye Boat Song |
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| Skye Boat Song (four string version) |
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| Skye Boat Song 2 |
This version of Skye Boat Song includes tablature for chord melody style of playing. |
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| Skye Boat Song 3 |
The version has many melody notes on the middle strings. |
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| Slievenamon |
Irish patriotic song |
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| Sloop John B |
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| Sloop John B |
Old Jamaican (oft recorded) tune |
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| Slowly Fall The Snow-Flakes |
Christmas Song. |
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| Snouts and Ears of America |
Played by fiddler Sarah Armstrong on November 5, 1943 near Derry, PA |
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| Softly and Tenderly |
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| Softly and Tenderly |
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| Softly and Tenderly, Jesus is Calling |
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| Soir Et Matin |
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| Soldier's Joy |
Traditional Fiddle Tune |
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| Soldier's Joy - Specialist's Version |
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| Soldiers Joy |
Folk |
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| Soltly And Tenderly Jesus Is Calling |
Traditional Christian Hymn |
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| Some Folks |
Written by Stephen Foster and originally published in 1855 |
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| Somebody's Tall And Handsome |
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| Song Before Christmas |
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| Song of the Wandering Aengus, in D dorian D-G-c |
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| Sonny's Mazurka |
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| Sorghum Syrup |
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| Southwind |
Two-part arrangement: Melody and Harmony |
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| Southwind |
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| Spanish Hymn |
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| Spanish Is The Loving Tongue |
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| Speckled Fish |
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| Spotted Pony |
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| Squid-Jigging Ground |
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| Squirrel Hunters |
Key of A - Capo 4 |
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| St. Denio |
Welsh tune submitted |
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| St. Louis Blues |
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| Star Of The County Down |
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| Star of the County Down |
Celtic |
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| Star of the County Down (Fingerpicked) |
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| Star of the County Down (Strummed) |
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| Star Spangled Banner |
This version is in DAD tuning and the key of G. |
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| Stars All Bright Are Beaming |
Christmas song. Circa 1916 |
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| Stars of Glory |
Celtic Carol
Here are the lryics...
Stars Of Glory
Stars of glory shine more brightly,
Purer be the moonlight's beam,
Glide ye hours and moments lightly,
Swiftly down time's deep'ning stream.
Bring the hour that banished sadness,
Brought redemption down to earth,
When the shepherds heard with gladness
Tidings of a Saviour's birth.
See the shepherds quickly rising,
Hast'ning to the humble stall,
And the newborn Infant prizing,
As the mighty Lord of All.
Lowly now they bend before him
In His helpless infant state.
Firmly faithful we adore Him,
And His greatness celebrate.
See how Mary loves her Boychild
In the light of Bethlehem.
Lowly ox and ass breathe warmly
On the little Lord of All.
Now the world is hushed in stillness,
In the joy of knowing God is near!
Hope and love have come to dwell here,
Driving out the night of fear.
Hark! The swell of heav'nly voices
Peals along the vaulted sky.
Angels sing while earth rejoices,
"Glory to our God on high!
Glory in the highest heaven.
Peace to lowly ones on earth.
Joy to these and bliss be given
In the great Redeemer's birth. |
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| Still, Still, Still |
An Austrian carol from the Salzburg region. It is based on an 1819 melody by Süss, with the original words, slightly changed over time and location, by G. Götsch. |
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| Storms are on the Ocean |
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| Streets of Laredo |
Old English Melody |
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| Sugar Hill |
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| Sugar Hill |
Another old-time fiddle tune! As with others, there are plenty of versions out there, fast and slow. This version is adapted from one the Charlotte Folk Society uses in its slow jams. |
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| Sugar Hill |
Fiddle Tune |
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| Sunny Italy |
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| Suo Gam |
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| Suo Gan harmony |
Traditional Welsh |
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| Suo Gan melody |
traditional Welsh |
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| Suomi |
This tune is from Finland. In fact, the name of the tune is Finnish for "Finland"! I heard it played on the 5-string kantele on Poul Lendal's album Ønskebarn. It has a stop where I've shown the stacatto, and it gives it a fun sound. |
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| Sussex Carol |
Traditional English carol. |
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| Sussex Waltz, Mozart |
Attached is tab for Mozart's Sussex Waltz (Michael Turner's Waltz). It is
a fingerpicked version in DAd.
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| Suzannah's Lament |
A new take on an old song. Revised. |
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| Svetit Svetel Mesyats |
This is a fun Russian folksong, not to be confused with Svetel Mesyats, another popular Russian tune. You can find both on YouTube. Sorry - I couldn't find lyrics to translate, but it sure sounds like a drinking song to me! |
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| Sweet Betsy From Pike |
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| Sweet Betsy From Pike |
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| Sweet Hour of Prayer |
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| Sweeter As the Years Go By |
Old hymn by Lelia N. Morris |
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| Take Me Out To The Ballgame |
Traditional Folk Tune (about 1908) |
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| Take My Life And Let It Be |
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| Take My Life and Let it Be |
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| Take Time to be Holy |
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| Tanz ("Dance") |
A 6/8 piece, composed by Georg Leopold Fuhrmann (1578-1616), a German lutenist. Tabbed for noter-drone style (high octave, all of the melody is on the melody string) and for flatpicking / strumming (in the lower octave, parts of the melody are played on the middle string). |
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| Tarantella |
Traditional Italian Folk Dance |
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| Tell Poor Lou I'm Gone |
Collected in KY - 1953 |
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Midi |
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| Ten Little Indians |
Traditional Kid's Counting Tune |
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| Tenderfoot |
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Midi |
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| Tenting Tonight |
Civil War tune |
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| Tex-i-an Boys |
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| Texas Rangers |
I found the tune in Jerry Silverman's Folk Song Encyclopedia, but the lyrics are from around 1869 as reported by Lomax in "Cowboy Songs". Tex Ritter and others sing other versions, with variations of the tune and lyrics. |
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Midi |
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| The Ash Grove |
The Ash Grove is a traditional Welsh folk song circa 1802. |
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| The Ashgrove |
Three-part arrangement |
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Midi |
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| The Bamboo Flute |
Traditional Chinese |
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Midi |
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| The Black Ball Line |
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Midi |
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| The Blackest Crow |
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| The Blue Tail Fly |
Early American Folk Song Circa 1840 |
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Midi |
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| The Blue Tail Waltz |
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| The Boiled Cabbage Waltz |
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| The Bottom of the Punchbowl |
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| The Bridal Jig |
A Klezmer Song. |
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Midi |
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| The Bridal Jig - Harmony |
A Klezmer Song |
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Midi |
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| The Bulgarian |
Bulgarian Folk Song |
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Midi |
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| The Caisson Song |
Music by John Phillip Sousa |
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| The Call |
A Celtic Reel |
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| The Canoe Song |
My parents spent 39 years as Lutheran missionaries in New Guinea. I was with them until I came Stateside to enter college. I learned the attached song while riding the mission boat from Lae to Madang. The men who sang it were from Sio village near Finschhafen. Unfortunately, I can't tell you what the words mean, but I understand it is a song that was sung while paddling one's canoe. |
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| The Cherry Tree Carol |
This is one of the most popular of English religious folk ballads. |
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| The Churches One Foundation |
Traditional Christian Hymn |
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Midi |
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| The Cornish Wassail Song |
Cornish Christmas Song |
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Midi |
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| The Cornish Wassail Song - Melody and Harmony |
Cornish Christmas Song |
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| The Cradle Song |
The Cradle Song is a slow air composed by the 19th-century Scottish fiddler James Scott Skinner. Supposedly he wrote it when he saw a sick child being cared for by its mother. |
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| The Dawning of the Day |
Old Irish harp song. |
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| The Day Thou Gavest, Lord, is Ended |
Hymn, credited to Clement Cotteril Scholefield, 1874. My own arrangement for finger-/flatpicking. |
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| The Deacon's Daughter |
Collected in CT, 1945, Arranged by Steve Smith |
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Midi |
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| The Devil You Say |
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| The Digger's Song |
1-5-4 Dorian, noter-and-drone |
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| The Dulcimer Waltz |
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| The Famine Song |
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| The Farmer's Curst Wife |
Collected in VT, 1945, Arranged by Steve Smith |
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Midi |
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| The Fiddler Has Played His Last Tune For The Night |
Folk Waltz |
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| The First Noel |
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| The First Noel |
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| The First Noel |
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| The Fox |
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Midi |
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| The Friendly Beasts |
Traditional - 12th Century English Carol |
PDF |
Midi |
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| The Gale |
A Reel in A minor. Written by Susan Conger (1997) |
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Midi |
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| The Holy Ground |
A traditional Irish Song |
PDF |
Midi |
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| The Hound Dawg Song |
Ozark Folk Songs (1946-50) |
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Midi |
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| The Irish National Anthem |
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Midi |
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| The Irish Washerwoman |
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| The Keel Row |
English folk song. |
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| The Kesh Jig |
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| The King of Love My Shepherd Is |
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| The Lark In The Clear Air |
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Midi |
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| The Lea Rig |
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| The Lord's My Shepherd |
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| The Master Hath Come |
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| The Merry Blacksmith |
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| The Milltown Jig |
Traditional Irish Jig |
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| The New Coventry Carol |
Revised. |
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Midi |
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| The Old Rugged Cross |
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Midi |
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| The Old Rugged Cross |
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| The Old Rugged Cross |
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| The Old Woman and the Little Pig |
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Midi |
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| The Pig Under The Oaks |
Traditional Welsh song. |
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Midi |
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| The Riddle Song |
A 15th-Century English Lullaby |
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| The Riddle Song |
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| The Riddle Song - Harmony |
Harmony for The Riddle Song |
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| The Riddle Song - Melody - Bass - Harmony |
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Midi |
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| The Rights of Man |
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Midi |
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| The Road to Gundagai |
Australian Traditional |
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Midi |
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| The Turtle Dove |
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Midi |
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| The Twelve Days of Christmas |
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| The Twelve Days of Christmas |
Traditional English carol |
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| The Unclouded Day |
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| The Vicar of Bray |
British ballad |
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Midi |
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| The Virginia Girl's Waltz |
Original arrangement by Paul G. Sykes. |
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| The Wassail Song |
The Wassail Song unlike other Christmas carols does not celebrate the nativity. The Wassail Song celebrates the New Year! "Wassail" is an olde English word for a toast similar to "Good Health" and the wassail is the content of the glass or goblet ( spiced or mulled wine or ale) The author of the lyrics is unknown but the tradition of going wassailing dates back to 12th century England. The composer of the music to the wassail song is also unknown. |
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| The Water is Wide |
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| The Wild Rover |
"The Wild Rover" is the most widely performed Irish song, although its exact origins are unknown. |
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| The Wind That Shakes the Barley |
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Midi |
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| There Be Dragons! |
A Scottish jig |
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Midi |
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| There is a Fountain |
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| There Is Power in the Blood |
Old hymn, by Lewis Edgar Jones |
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| There's a Long, Long Trail |
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| There's a Long, Long Trail (DAA) |
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| There's No Disappointment in Heaven |
old hymn |
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| These Things Shall Be |
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| This Is My Father's World |
A Christian hymn written by Maltbie Davenport Babcock, and published after his death in 1901. Set to music in 1915 by Franklin L. Sheppard, who is said to have adapted the music from a traditional English melody that he learned from his mother as a child. |
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| This is My Fathers World |
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| This Lady She Wears a Dark Green Shawl |
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Midi |
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| This Old Man |
Traditional Kids Counting Tune |
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Midi |
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| This Train |
Melody - Harmony - Bass |
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Midi |
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| Through All The World Below |
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| To God Be The Glory |
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| Tommy |
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| Toot, Toot, Tootsie |
Attached is tab for "Toot, Toot, Tootsie" (public domain, 1922). This is a
lively noter/drone version in DAA and DAD' - all on one sheet. Good
chromatic runs using the 6+ fret.
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| Train Song Booklet - Fireball Mail,
Georgia Railroad, Reuben's Train, Wabash Cannonball, Wreck of Old 97, Life's Railway to Heaven, Wreck of Number Nine |
Great booklet that contains:
Fireball Mail
Georgia Railroad
Reuben's Train
Wabash Cannonball
Wreck of Old 97
Life's Railway to Heaven
Wreck of Number Nine |
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| Tramp Tramp Tramp DAA |
This simple melody only version in DAA tuning includes a LISTEN file played with a noter. |
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Midi |
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| Tramp Tramp Tramp DAD |
This simple melody only version includes a LISTEN file played with a noter. A 6.5 fret is required to play this version. |
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| Tramp, Tramp, Tramp |
Written by George Root and originally published in 1864 |
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| Trepak from Nutcracker (Tchaikovsky) |
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| Tripping up the Stairs |
Irish Jig |
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| Trust And Obey |
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| Tu Scendi Dalle Stelle |
This is a Christmas carol from Italy, written in 1732 by Saint Alfonso Liguori in the musical style of a pastorale. Luciano Pavarotti has a very nice version of this song on YouTube. |
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Midi |
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| Tum Balalaika |
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| Tune 6 |
This is an original tune, copyright free. Enjoy. |
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Midi |
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| Tune 9 |
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Midi |
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| Turkey In The Straw |
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Midi |
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| Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus |
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| Turtle Dove |
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Midi |
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| Twelve (12) Bar Blues in D |
An opportunity for improvisation. |
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Midi |
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| Twinkle Jig |
An old song with a new twist. |
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Midi |
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| Two English Carols |
"The Holly and the Ivy" and "Away in the Manger" |
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| Two Sisters |
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Midi |
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| Ulster Blossom |
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Midi |
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| Un Kilomètre à Pied |
French children's song |
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Midi |
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| Uncle Joe |
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Midi |
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| Under the Double Eagle - Backup |
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| Under the Double Eagle - Harmony |
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| Under the Double Eagle - Melody |
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Midi |
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| Under the Double Eagle - Melody and Harmony |
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| Under the Porch Light |
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| Union Train |
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Midi |
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| Unquiet Grave |
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Midi |
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| Unto Us A Boy Was Born |
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| Up on the House Top |
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| Up On The Housetop |
"Up on the House Top" is a Christmas song written by Benjamin Hanby in 1864 in the town of New Paris, Ohio. |
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| Vacant Chair |
Civil War tune |
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| Vacant Chair - Historical version |
Historical Version |
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| Venezuela |
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| Vicar of Bray |
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Midi |
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| Vive La Compagnie |
A song from 1818. A traditional British ballad. A political song in Ireland. A song adoped by the Confederate soldiers during the Civil war. |
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Midi |
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| Volga Boatmen |
Russian Folk Song |
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Midi |
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| Volte Renassance Dance |
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| Wabash Cannonball |
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| Wabash Cannonball - D |
An American Folk Song |
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| Wabash Cannonball - G |
An American Folk Song |
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Midi |
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| Wait for the Wagon |
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| Walk Along, John |
From "American Folk Songs for Children" by Ruth Crawford Seeger |
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Midi |
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| Walkin' In The Parlor |
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Midi |
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| Waltz of the Angels |
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| Waltz of the Daddy Long Legs |
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| Waltzing Matilda |
Folk Song. Unofficial Australian National Anthem |
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| Waltzing Matilda |
The well-known "Marie Cowan" version of Australia's most widely known folk song! |
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| Waltzing with Aunt Rhody |
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| Waltzing with Joe (Old Joe Clark) |
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| Wanderin' |
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Midi |
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| Water Is Wide |
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Midi |
TXT |
| Waterbound |
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Midi |
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| Wayfarin Stranger |
Gospel Spiritual |
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| Wayfaring Stranger |
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| Wayfaring Stranger |
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| We Gather Together |
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| We Gather Together |
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| We Rock |
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| We Wish You a Merry Christmas |
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| Weeping Willow Waltz |
Original tune for tenor recorder and dulcimers (one with 1+ fret, one without) |
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| Westering Home |
A Scottish Folk Song - Circa 1920 |
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Midi |
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| Westphalia Waltz |
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Midi |
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| What a Friend We Have in Jesus |
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| What A Friend We Have In Jesus |
Gospel tune |
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| What A Wonderful Savior |
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| What Child is This |
Capo on 1 |
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| What Child is This |
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| What Child is This |
Chromatic Version of "What Child is This" |
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| What Child is This? |
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| What Did You Have For Your Supper? |
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| What Grace, O Lord, and Beauty Shone |
This hymn's lyrics were written by Edward Denny in 1839. They are used with at least three tunes. The most common seems to be "This Endris Nyght" - a 15th century English carol. The version I have here is from the Methodist "Book of Hymns" and uses the tune, "Christus, Der Ist Mein Leben". It is from Bach Chorale BVW 281, based on a melody by Melchoir Vulpius from around 1600. |
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| What If A Day |
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| What Wondrous Love |
Southern Appalachian Hymn |
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| What Wondrous Love Is This |
American Spiritual.
Melody and Harmony. |
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Midi |
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| What's Little Babies Made Of |
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Midi |
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| Wheels |
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| When Christmas Morn is Dawning |
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Midi |
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| When He Cometh |
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Midi |
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| When I Can Read My Title Clear |
Kentucky Folk Melody
Known as "Pisgah" in the Sacred Harp Book |
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| When I Survey the Wondrous Cross |
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| When I Survey the Wondrous Cross |
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| When I Was In My Prime CGC |
There are some claims that this song originated in 1689 with Mrs. Fleetwood Habergham's poem "The Seeds Of Love" (a. k. a. "Love's Evil Choice"). It appears the song may have evolved later to influence "The Sprig Of Thyme" and many other similar tunes in the British Isles. Maybe later it landed in North America in its current form but it maintained all of its symbolism to warn of the dangers in taking false lovers. This version is in CGC tuning. |
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| When I Was In My Prime DAG |
There are some claims that this song originated in 1689 with Mrs. Fleetwood Habergham's poem "The Seeds Of Love" (a. k. a. "Love's Evil Choice"). It appears the song may have evolved later to influence "The Sprig Of Thyme" and many other similar tunes in the British Isles. Maybe later it landed in North America in its current form but it maintained all of its symbolism to warn of the dangers in taking false lovers. This version is in DAG tuning and the LISTEN file is played with a noter. |
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| When Jesus Wept |
Sacred Harp Hymn |
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| When Johnny Come Marching Home |
The tablature file includes sheet music and chords for mountain dulcimer EBA and DAD tunings. The LISTEN file begins with the EBA dulcimer and ends with the DAD dulcimer. |
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| When Johnny Comes Marching Home |
When Johnny Comes Marching Home" (sometimes "When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again") is a popular song of the American Civil War that expressed people's longing for the return of their friends and relatives who were fighting in the war. |
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| When Johnny Comes Marching Home |
Civil War tune |
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| When the Saints Go Marching in |
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Midi |
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| When The Saints Go Marching In |
Melody and Counter Melody |
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Midi |
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| When the Saints Go Marching In |
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| When You Go A-Courtin' |
An American folk song with a couple of versions floating around, as usual. This one's now even sung by choirs! |
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Midi |
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| When You Wore A Tulip |
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Midi |
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| While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks - Melody and Harmony |
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Midi |
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| Whiskey Before Breakfast |
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Midi |
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| Whiskey Before Breakfast - Arabic Maqsum Rhythm |
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Midi |
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| Whispering Hope |
Three-part arrangement: Melody, Harmony, and Bass |
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Midi |
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| Whispering Hope |
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| White Cockade |
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| Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot? |
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| Why I Love You a. k. a. Tell Me Why |
This song is one where maybe people sing the refrain and the verses might be mostly forgotten. The verses are catchy and in 4/4 time and the refrain is in easy going and in 3/4 time. The verse requires a 6+ fret. |
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Midi |
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| Wild Mountain Thyme |
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| Wild Mountain Thyme |
Gorgeous Scottish Tune |
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| Wild Mountain Thyme |
"Wild Mountain Thyme" (also known as "Purple Heather" and "Will Ye Go, Lassie, Go") is a folk song written by Francis McPeake, a member of a well known musical family in Belfast, of Scottish origin.[1] McPeake's lyrics are a variant of the song "The Braes of Balquhither" by Scottish poet Robert Tannahill (1774-1810), a contemporary of Robert Burns. Tannahill's original song, first published in R. A. Smith's Scottish Minstrel (1821-24), is about the hills (braes) around Balquhidder near Lochearnhead. Like Burns, Tannahill collected and adapted traditional songs, and "The Braes of Balquhither" may have been based on the traditional song "The Braes o' Bowhether".
(From Wikipedia.org) |
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| Wild Rover |
Traditional Irish tune |
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| Wildwood Flower |
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| Wildwood Flower |
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| Will the Circle Be Unbroken |
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| Will the Circle be Unbroken |
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| Will Ye No Come Back Again |
Traditional Scottish Folk Tune |
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| Will Ye No Come Back Again |
Low Octave Version |
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| William Taylor |
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Midi |
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| Willie O' Winsbury |
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Midi |
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| Willow Tree |
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| Winter It Is Past |
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Midi |
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| Wish I Was In Tennessee |
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| Wonderful Words of Life |
Two-part arrangement: Melody and Harmony |
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| Wondrous Love |
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| Wondrous Love |
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| Woodpecker Chasing a Lizard |
This is a song that I wrote based on something I saw at Tannehill State Park in McCalla, AL. I saw this red bird runnning around a tree (I'm assuming it's a woodpecker). When I got closer, I saw that it was chasing a little brown lizard. They ran around the tree a few times and then spiraled their way down to the ground. The woodpecker caught the lizard by the tail. As lizards will do in this situation, it detached its tail. The woodpecker ate the tail, and the lizard ran away. |
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| World Turned Upside Down |
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| Wreck of the Old 97 |
Traditional |
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| Wu Ya Wu Ya - Song of the Crow |
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| Yankee Doodle |
Tune from American Revolution and Civil War era |
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Midi |
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| Ye Sons of Men, Oh Hearken |
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| Yellow Rose of Texas in D |
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| Yellow Rose of Texas in G |
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| Yonder Rolls the Waves |
Original composition by Paul G. Sykes. |
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| You Dont Want To Love Me |
French |
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Midi |
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| You're a Grand Old Flag |
Three-part arrangement: Melody (with and without 1+ fret), Harmony, and Bass |
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| You're the Flower of My Heart, Sweet Adeline (D-F#-A) |
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| Young Charlotte |
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| Young Prince Of Spain |
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| Your Hand, O Lord, in Days of Old |
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| Your Love is the Greatest Gift of All (Dulcimer 1) |
To hear an audio version of this song go to:
https://www.reverbnation.com/ronzuckerman/song/10668998-your-love-is-greatest-gift-all |
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| Your Love is the Greatest Gift of All (Dulcimer 2) |
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| Your Love is the Greatest Gift of All (Guitar) |
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