Dulcimer Songbook: Irish Songs

Thomas Balinger Dulcimer Songbook Irish Songs 50 popular Irish Songs arranged for dulcimer in standard mixolydian tuning D-A-D (6 1/2 fret models; TAB fret numbers: 1 2 3 4 5 6 6+ 7). Progressively graded from simple melody playing on one or two strings to easy fingerpicking arrangements of 7 popular songs, this collection is aimed at the beginning player. Plus chord symbols, dulcimer chord diagrams and a collection of strumming patterns for song accompaniment. Songs: 1. Boolavogue 2. Botany Bay 3. Botany Bay (Arr.) 4. Brennan on the moor 5. Carrickfergus 6. Courtin’ in the kitchen 7. Danny Boy 8. Dicey Riley 9. Down by the Glenside 10. Finnegan’s Wake 11. I’ll tell me Ma 12. I never will marry 13. I never will marry (Arr.) 14. I once loved a lass 15. James Connolly 16. Molly Malone 17. Never wed an old man 18. Never wed an old man (Arr.) 19. New York girls 20. Old Maid in a garret 21. Poor Paddy works on the railway 22. Reilly’s daughter 23. She moved through the fair 24. Skibbereen 25. Spancil Hill 26. Swallow tail jig 27. The Bard of Armagh 28. The Bard of Armagh (Arr.) 29. The black velvet band 30. The black velvet band (Arr.) 31. The cliffs of Dooneen 32. The flower of sweet Strabane 33. The foggy dew 34. The hills of Connemara 35. The humour is on me now 36. The jolly beggarman 37. The last rose of summer 38. The Lowlands low 39. The mermaid 40. The merry ploughboy 41. The Minstrel Boy 42. The moonshiner 43. The mountains of Mourne 44. The mountains of Mourne (Arr.) 45. The nightingale 46. The rising of the moon 47. The rising of the moon (Arr.) 48. The rose of Mooncoin 49. The Sally Gardens 50. The snowy-breasted pearl 51. The Spanish lady 52. The star of the County Down 53. The wearing of the Green 54. The wild rover 55. Three drunken maidens 56. Three score and ten 57. Waxies’ Dargle 58. Whiskey in the jar