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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)