jig · Key of D

Bonny Laboring Boy

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Irish tenor banjo tab

Sheet Music for "Bonny Laboring Boy"Bonny Laboring Boy0545054054540000501052454220500245010524542205005454505405454000Book: O'Neill's 195Notes:"Tenderly" "collected by F. O'Neill"

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X:195
T:Bonny Laboring Boy
N:"Tenderly" "collected by F. O'Neill"
B:O'Neill's 195
M:6/8
L:1/8
K:D
D|G2 F G2 A|d2 c AGF|G2 F D2 D|D3- D2 A|
d2 e =f2 e|d2 B cdc|B2 B2 A2 G|A3 ABc|
d2 e =f2 e|d2 B cdc|B2 B A2 G|A3 AGF|
G2 F G2 A|d2 c AGF|G2 F D2 D|D3- D2||
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Questions about Bonny Laboring Boy

  • Bonny Laboring Boy is in D, in 6/8 time. The D major scale gives you every note it uses.

  • Very easy. 100% of the notes fall in first position, between the open string and the fifth fret, and the highest fret used is 5.

  • It is a jig, written in 6/8.

  • Yes. Copy the ABC below into the ABC transposer, move the transpose control by semitone, and the notation and tab are redrawn together in the new key. Handy if a singer wants it lower or the tune sits awkwardly on the neck.

  • Yes. Tenor banjo, mandolin and octave mandola are all tuned GDAE, so the tab above is identical for all three. A bouzouki tuned GDAD needs the top string adjusting, which the converter handles.

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