Tie the Petticoat Tighter
O’Neill 1903
Also known as The Bonnie Highlander
Irish tenor banjo tab
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ABC notation source
X:792 T:Tie the Petticoat Tighter. T:The Bonnie Highlander. C:F. O'Neill. B:O'Neill's Music of Ireland N:O'Neill's - 792 R:Jig M:6/8 K:Am B2|c2 A BGE|c2 A BGE|G2 G G2 d|G2 G G2 B|c2 A BGE|c2 A BGE| |A2 A A2 e|A2 A A2:|B|cde dcB|cBA BGE|g>ag gdB|g>ag gdB| [1 cde dcB|cBA BGE|aba aec|aba aec:|[2 cde def|edc BA^G|\ A2 A A2 e|A2 A A2|]
Questions about Tie the Petticoat Tighter
Tie the Petticoat Tighter is in Am, in 6/8 time. The A minor scale gives you every note it uses.
Easy. 97% of the notes fall in first position, between the open string and the fifth fret, and the highest fret used is 7.
It is a jig, written in 6/8.
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.