jig · Key of A

Sweet Molly

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Irish tenor banjo tab

Sheet Music for "Sweet Molly"Sweet Molly050542050525455554205052555444422024754240505542025455544442202475424050554202545Book: O'Neill's 377Notes:"With feeling.""collected by F. O'Neill"Grace notes are slurred to following note (which is thensometimes slurred to the note after that.)

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X: 377
T:Sweet Molly
M:6/8
L:1/8
B:O'Neill's 377
N:"With feeling."
N:"collected by F. O'Neill"
N:Grace notes are slurred to following note (which is then
N:sometimes slurred to the note after that.)
K:A
A|(d>ed) (c>BA)|(d>e.d) (f<a).c|d<dd {d}c>BA|(d>e.d) (f<a)a|
(a/2g/2).g.g (gf).f|(e>fg) (b/2a/2g/2f/2g/2e/2)|(d>ed) {d}(c>BA)|(Bdc) d2a|
(a/2g/2).g.g (gf).f|(e>fg) (b/2a/2g/2f/2g/2e/2)|(d>ed) {d}(c>BA)|(Bdc) d2||
FAQ

Questions about Sweet Molly

  • Sweet Molly is in A, in 6/8 time. The A major 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.

  • 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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