Key of Edor
Sleepy Maggie
O’Neill 1903 no. 1424
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Irish tenor banjo tab
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ABC notation source
X:1424
T:Sleepy Maggie
M:C|
L:1/8
N:"collected by J. O'Neill"
B:O'Neill's 1424
K:Edor
f2 (de) fBde | Tf2 (df) eAce | {g}f2 (de) fBde | fgaf eAce |
f2 (de) fBde | Tf2 (df) eAce | {g}f2 (de) fBde | fgaf eAce ||
fBdB fBde | fBdB eAce | fBdB eBde | f^gaf eAce |
fBdB fBde | fBdB eAce | dcBc defg | abaf eAce ||
fBbB fBde | fBbB aAce | fBbB aB^gB | fB^gB aAde :|FAQ
Questions about Sleepy Maggie
Sleepy Maggie is in Edor, in C| time. The E dorian scale gives you every note it uses.
Easy. 97% of the notes fall in first position, between the open string and the fifth fret, and the highest fret used is 7.
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.