Molly What Ails You?
O’Neill 1903 no. 1413
Irish tenor banjo tab
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ABC notation source
X:1413 T:Molly What Ails You? M:C| L:1/8 N:"collected by F. O'Neill" B:O'Neill's 1413 K:D ABAF ABde | ((3fga) ef (dB)Bd | ABAF ABde | ((3fga) (ef) dcdB | ABAF ABde | ((3fga) ef dBBd | ABAF ABde | baef Td2 d2 || f>a (3.a.a.a g>b (3.b.b.b | afef dB B2 | f>a (3.a.a.a g>bbc' | d'c'ba b2 b2 || f>a (3.a.a.a g>b (3.b.b.b | afef dBBd | ABAF ABde | baef Td2 d2 |]
Questions about Molly What Ails You?
Molly What Ails You? is in D, in C| time. The D major scale gives you every note it uses.
Harder. 86% of the notes fall in first position, between the open string and the fifth fret, and the highest fret used is 10.
The tune type is not recorded in the source collection.
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.