Key of G

The Croppy Boy

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Irish tenor banjo tab

Sheet Music for "The Croppy Boy"The Croppy Boy050502505555025325205050253252055052050250555Book: O'Neill's 198Notes:"Slow" "collected by Hartnett"

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X:198
T:The Croppy Boy
N:"Slow" "collected by Hartnett"
B:O'Neill's 198
M:C
L:1/8
K:G
D2|G2 A>G A B2 G|A2 G>G G2 G/A/B/d/|g4 fdfe|d4 z D G/A/B/d/|
g4 fdfe|d3 d e/d/B/A/ G>A|B3 G A2 G>G|G4 z2||
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Questions about The Croppy Boy

  • The Croppy Boy is in G, in C 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.