hornpipe · Key of D

Limerick Junction

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Irish tenor banjo tab

Sheet Music for "Limerick Junction"Limerick JunctionHornpipeanon. (Ireland)330544240542420602540545002545205424542405424206025405025420020Tenor Banjo3323525230402545204025452320254520235252304025452052405230405545Tenor BanjoBook: Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 820
ABC notation source
X:820
T:Limerick Junction
C:anon.
O:Ireland
B:Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 820
R:Hornpipe
M:C|
L:1/8
K:D
(AG)|F2(FE) FAGF|E(FED) CDEG|FAd2 cde2|(3(efd) (3(cdB) A(GFE)|F(GFE) FAGF|E(FED) CDEG|FAd(A BG)FE|D2(DE) D2:|
|:(fg)|afd(f g)ece|fdc(d B)AFA|BGFG E2(gf)|(3(efd) (3(cdB) A2(fg)|afd(f g)ece|fdc(d B)AGE|FAd(f g)ec(e|d2)dc d2:|
FAQ

Questions about Limerick Junction

  • Limerick Junction is in D, in C| time. On a GDAE instrument it sits in first position.

  • Easy. 98% of the notes fall in first position, between the open string and the fifth fret, and the highest fret used is 6.

  • It is a hornpipe, written in C|.

  • 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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