Key of Em

The Widowed Bride

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Irish tenor banjo tab

Sheet Music for "The Widowed Bride"The Widowed Bride542232023205454202320602620232054502542060230260203205425422002320753532060202320753532023205450254206023026020320542542Book: O'Neill's 156Notes:"Plaintively" "collected by F. O'Neill"

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X:156
T:The Widowed Bride
N:"Plaintively" "collected by F. O'Neill"
B:O'Neill's 156
M:C
L:1/8
K:Em
(G>F)|E2 (B>c) B2 AB|(cBAG) F2 (G>F)|E2 (e>f) g2 (f>e)|(^d>efd) B2 (AB)|
(cBAG) F2 (G>A)|(BGFE) {e}^d2 ef|(ge)(f^d) (eB) (A/c/B/A/)|G2 (TF2 {EGF}E2)||
z B|e2 (e>f) g2 (f>e)|(b>a)(ga) {g}f2 e^d|eBef g2 fe|(b>a)(ga) {g}f2 AB|
(cBAG) F2 (G>A)|(BGFE) {e}^d2 ef|(ge)(f^d) (eB) (A/c/B/A/)|G2 (TF2 {EGF}E2)||
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Questions about The Widowed Bride

  • The Widowed Bride is in Em, in C time. The E minor scale gives you every note it uses.

  • Moderate. 92% of the notes fall in first position, between the open string and the fifth fret, and the highest fret used is 7.

  • 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.