Post on 14-Aug-2020
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PRACTICE SESSION CHEAT SHEETS Palmerston North Folk Music Club
1. Roddy McCorley
(AAx1)
Mountains of
Pomeroy (AABBx1)
2. Inisheer (AAB)
3. Over the Oceans
(AABB)
4. Huntingtone
Castle (AABB)
5. Muckin’ of
Geordie’s Byre
(AABB)
6. Black Matai
v1-v2-v3-v4-inst-v1
1. What are you singing, black matai, black matai?... 4. What are you whispering, wind in the snowgrass...
2. What are you chattering, tall mountain birches?... INSTRUMENTAL
3. Oh, the smell of these deerskins, the weight of my rifle... repeat v.1
7. Lannigan’s Ball
(AABB)
8. The Ash Plant
(AB)
9. Galopede
(AABBx2)
Pat Horgan’s #1
(AABBx2)
Pat Horgan’s #2
(AABBx2)
10. Morgan Magan
(AB)
11. Rose of
Aranmore (AB)
12. Centenary
March (AABB)
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13. Fanny Power
(AABB)
14. Bayou Noir
(AABBAA)
15. Packing My
Things
v1-v2-inst-v3
1. When I first came and took up my claim... 2. I've hunted Otago for gold... INSTRUMENTAL
CHORUS: But I'm a-wake up! - I will break up!... 3. In those shanties where you spin...
16. The Greencastle
(AABB)
17. The Stack of
Oats (AAB)
18. After the Battle
of Aughrim (AABB)
19. Jacky Tar
(AABB)
20. Fisher’s
Hornpipe (AABB)
21. Calum’s Road
(AABB)
22. Old Joe Clark
(AABB)
variation
23. Blue Smoke
v1-inst-v1
Blue smoke goes drifting by into the deep blue sky... Play: verse – instrumental – verse
And as I sailed away with a longing to stay...
24. The Newcastle
(AABB)
25. Apples in
Winter (AAB)
26. Flowers of
Edinburgh (AABB)
27. Sally Gardens
(reel) (AABB)
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28. The Flowers of
Spring (AABB)
29. The Merry
Blacksmith (AABB)
30. Tombigbee
Waltz (AABB)
31. Bonaparte
Crossing the Alps
(AABB)
32. The Hills of
Lorne (AABB)
33. Arran Boat
(AAB)
34. Eleanor
Plunkett (AB)
35. 36. Bonaparte
Crossing the Alps
(AABBx2)
Bonaparte Crossing
the Rhine (AABBx2)
37. Ashokan
Farewell (AB)
38. Salt Creek
(AABB)
39. The Butterfly
(AABBCC)
40. Paddy White
(AABB)
41. Kitty O’Dwyer
(AB)
42. Morpeth Rant
(AABBx2)
Jacky Tar
(AABBx2)
43. Wangaratta
Waltz (AABBC)
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44. West the Hill
(AABB)
45. Hills of Tara
(AABB)
46. Wren’s Jig
(AABB)
47. The Slide With
No Name (AABB)
48. Albert Farmer’s
Bonfire Tune
(AABB)
49. Red-Haired Boy
(AABB)
50. The Dark Island
(AB)