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The Wild Geese

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Irish tenor banjo tab

Sheet Music for "The Wild Geese"The Wild Geese02442002424204240020245554244420220420245554244420245420402#pp44200242420424602420025420240420402420424020cresc.0542452542024022042024Ppp5424525420240245420402542024042040242042402020204ffChorus.020204020204510204510202054920205492020427202042720204pp5102020549202042754540402442002424204246042400Book: O'Neill's 170Notes:"Slow"

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X:170
T:The Wild Geese
N:"Slow"
B:O'Neill's 170
M:3/4
L:1/8
K:A
(A>B)|c2 (c/4B/4A3/2) (A/4B/4c3/2)|B2 (c/B/A/F/) E2|F2 A2 (A>B)|A4 (B>c)|
d2 d2 (d/4c/4B3/2)|c2 c2 (c/4B/4A3/2)|B2 f2 (e>c)|B4 (A/4B/4c3/2)|
d2 d2 (d/4c/4B3/2)|c2 c2 (c/4B/4A3/2)|(B>c) (.d.c.B.A)|F4 (A>B)|
c2 (c/4B/4A3/2) (A/4B/4c3/2)|B2 (c/B/A/F/) E2|("#"~F>G) (A>Bc>B)|A4 "pp"(A>B)|
{d}(c>BA>Bc>A)|{c}(B>AF>AB>F)|{B}(A>FE>FA>B)|A4 z2|
"cresc."{e}(d>cB>cd>B)|{d}(c>BA>Bc>A)|B2 f2 (e>c)|B4 (A/4B/4c)|
"P"(d>cB>cd>B)|{d}(c>BA>Bc>A)|B>c .d.c.B.A|F4 "pp"A>B|
{d}(c>BA>Bc>A)|{c}(B>AF>AB>F)|{B}(A>FE>FA>B)|A7/2 f/ {ef}(e>c)|
"ff"">"(A7/2 "Chorus."f/) {ef}(e>c)|(A7/2 f/) {ef}(e>c)|(d2 d'>)f T(e>c)|(d2 d'>)f {ef}(e>d)|
(c2 c'>)f {ef}(e>d)|(c2 c'>)f {ef}(e>c)|(B2 b>)f {ef}(e>c)|(B2 b>)f {ef}(e>c)|
(d2 d'>)f {ef}(e>d)|(c2 c'>)f {ef}(e>c)|(B2 b>)d {cd}(c>A)|F4 "pp"(A>B)|
c2 (c/4B/4A3/2) (A/4B/4c3/2)|B2 (c/B/A/F/) E2|F>GA>cB>c|A2 HA2||
FAQ

Questions about The Wild Geese

  • The Wild Geese is in A, in 3/4 time. The A major scale gives you every note it uses.

  • Moderate. 95% of the notes fall in first position, between the open string and the fifth fret, and the highest fret used is 10.

  • 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.