Digital Tradition Mirror

This notation is pretty simple; dark circles mean covered holes; empty circles mean uncovered holes; a '+' below means to blow harder to get the upper octave; a '#' below means this note is too low for the whistle chosen and you'll have to fake it :) The author of this program always plays accidentals by closing holes, so you'll never see half-covered holes.

When I was starting, I found notation like this to be very helpful, and I know plenty of people who have trouble reading music who find this notation easier. Good luck!

A North Country Maid

(D whistle)

(This score available as ABC, SongWright, PostScript, PNG, or PMW, or a MIDI file)
(Choose a whistle key: A B C D E F G Ab Bb Cb Db Eb Fb Gb A# B# C# D# E# F# G#)
Dulcimer tab for this song is also available

A North Country Maid

1. A north country maid up to London has strayed
   All though with her nature it did not agree
   And she's wept and she's sighed
   And she's wrung her hands and cried,
   Oh I wish once again in the north I could be.

Chorus:
   For the oak and the ash,
   And the bonny ivy tree
   All flourish and bloom
   In my north country.

2. How sadly I roamed
   And lament my dear home,
   Where lads and lasses are making the hay
   Where the bells they do ring
   And the little birds do sing,
   And the maidens and meadows are pleasant and gay.

3. No doubt if I please, I could marry with ease
   For where bonnie lasses are, lovers will come
   But the lad that I wed, must be North country bred,
   And must carry me back to my North country home.

see also Oak, Ash, and Thorn Ambletown (Home Dearie Home)
recorded by Deller Consort, also Watersons
DC

Thanks to Mudcat for the Digital Tradition!