Key of G

The Pretty Girls of Ballymena

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Irish tenor banjo tab

Sheet Music for "The Pretty Girls of Ballymena"The Pretty Girls of Ballymena2522504025025025225040252055252250402502502523025420320505023502502300545023503503220502350535023532053032054503255Book: "O'Neill's 42"Notes:"Moderate" "collected by J. O'Neill"

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X: 42
T: The Pretty Girls of Ballymena
M: C
L: 1/8
B: "O'Neill's 42"
N: "Moderate" "collected by J. O'Neill"
K:G
B | .G.E.E.G .D.B,.D.E | .G.A.B.G A2zB/2-A/2 | .G.E.E.G DB,DE | GBAG G2zB/2-A/2 |
GEEG DB,DE | GABG A3 B/2-c/2 | dBcA BGFE | DcBA G2z ||
D | GABc d2 eB | d2 eB cAAG | FGAB c2 dA | c2 dA cBBA |
GABc d2 ed | cdef ~g2 (a/2g/2f/2e/2) | dgec B2 AG | FGAc BG G2 ||
FAQ

Questions about The Pretty Girls of Ballymena

  • The Pretty Girls of Ballymena 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.