hornpipe · Key of F
The Merry Gardener
Irish tenor banjo tab
ABC notation source
X:1761
T:The Merry Gardener
M:C|
L:1/8
N:"collected by J. O'Neill"
B:O'Neill's 1761
R:Hornpipe
K:F
A>B | {d}c>AG>A F2 D>E | F>GA>c f2 f>g | a>gf>d c>AF>A | d>cA>F G>BA>G |
F>ED>E F>GA>c | d>fe>g f2 e>d | c>AG>F G>BA>G | F2 F2 F2 :|
|: c>B | A>FA>c f>ag>f | e>gf>d c2 d>e | f>dc>A B>AB>c | A>FB>A G2 c>B |
A>cf>a b>ge>c | a>fc>A {c}B2 c>B | A>cf>c d>BG>E | F2 F2 F2 :|FAQ
Questions about The Merry Gardener
The Merry Gardener is in F, in C| time. On a GDAE instrument it sits in first position.
Easy. 99% of the notes fall in first position, between the open string and the fifth fret, and the highest fret used is 6.
It is a hornpipe, written in C|.
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.