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The Jolly Plowman

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Irish tenor banjo tab

Sheet Music for "The Jolly Plowman"The Jolly Plowman204052060400040052554045206000545054205450555255404205042054204052060400400525540452060Book: O'Neill's 386Notes:"Moderate.""1st Setting.""collected by F. O'Neill"

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X: 386
T:The Jolly Plowman
M:C
L:1/8
B:O'Neill's 386
N:"Moderate."
N:"1st Setting."
N:"collected by F. O'Neill"
K:A
E|A2(c>A) (d<B)AG|(Ac)e>e (e2c>e)|(ed)Bd (dc)Ac|dBAG A2z :|
e|(e>d)cd (eagf)|(e>d)cd e2a>a|(a2fa)ag2e|gfed .e(g/2f/2 e/2d/2c/2B/2)|
A2(c>A) dBAG|(Ace2) (e2c>e)|edBd dcAc|dBAG A2||
FAQ

Questions about The Jolly Plowman

  • The Jolly Plowman is in A, in C time. The A major scale gives you every note it uses.

  • Easy. 95% of the notes fall in first position, between the open string and the fifth fret, and the highest fret used is 6.

  • 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.