Key of G

The Black Haired Girl

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Irish tenor banjo tab

Sheet Music for "The Black Haired Girl"The Black Haired Girl0552502353203205255250235320220502355023253205205323053205024552205025555Book: O'Neill's 509Notes:"Moderate" "collected by F. O'Neill"

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X: 509
T:The Black Haired Girl
M:2/4
L:1/8
B:O'Neill's 509
N:"Moderate" "collected by F. O'Neill"
K:G
D \
| G2 (GE | G2) AB | c2 (d/2c/2)(B/2A/2) | (c/2B/2)(A/2G/2) E/2 z/2 z |
| G2 (GE | G2) AB | c2 (d/2c/2)(B/2A/2) | (B2 B) :|
|| A \
| (G>A) .B.c | d>d (ef) | g>f (a/2g/2)(f/2e/2) | d>B (e/2d/2)(c/2B/2) |
| c>A (d/2c/2)(B/2A/2) | (G/2D/2E/2F/2) (~GG/2B/2) | {B}(A/2G/2A/2B/2) (.G .G) | (G2 HG) |]
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Questions about The Black Haired Girl

  • The Black Haired Girl is in G, in 2/4 time. The G 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.

  • 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.