reel · Key of G

The Happy Days of Youth

O’Neill 1903 no. 1311

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Irish tenor banjo tab

Sheet Music for "The Happy Days of Youth"The Happy Days of YouthReel52505250250524525052302525525532550255325525532552050232052553255025532557352320252523052Book: O'Neill's 1311Notes:Collected by F. O'Neill

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X:1311
T:The Happy Days of Youth
R:Reel
N:Collected by F. O'Neill
B:O'Neill's 1311
M:C|
L:1/8
K:G
G2Bde2dB|(GA)BG (AG)EF|G2Bde2dB|(cA)BG (EG)G2:|
(f<a)ag (fd)de|fdag (fd)d2|(f<a)ag (fd)df|edef gfed|
(f<a)ag (fd)de|fdag (fd)d2|bgaf gfef|dfaf gedB|]
FAQ

Questions about The Happy Days of Youth

  • The Happy Days of Youth is in G, in C| time. The G major scale gives you every note it uses.

  • Easy. 99% 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 reel, written in C|.

  • 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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