I have recorded this waltz three times; on Beacon Hillbillies first East Side Digital CD "Duffield Station", featuring John Whelan on accordion; on the Green Linnet "Celtic Fiddle Festival" featuring Kevin Burke, Johnny Cunningham and Christian LeMaitre in a 3-fiddles-plus-guitar arrangement; and on my solo Green Linnet CD "Upslide" with Fiddle Fever's Evan Stover on viola. All 3 versions are at www.tunes.com.

Here is an immediately viewable GIF file (see the link below for a much better printable .eps file via .pdf format)

It's a simple melody with chords that move through a few different key centers; I just 'heard it' this way. The chords add a sense of motion through the piece that gives the melody a different flow than it has unaccompanied.

I previously posted this piece without tab, but had enough requests that I caved in- the tablature is for mandolin.

The chord symbols represent what I am hearing; I don't always play the same voicings. I wrote tab chords below the lead sheet, for guitar and mandolin, for those who might like to try them.

You can also download the music in the Abode Acrobat .pdf format, for both Mac and Windows. Free download of the Reader from Adobe:

These are written left to right representing low to high strings; an x indicates an unplayed string. I give two choices on a few of the chords. The symbols in ( ) explain what the voicing is- as you see, there can be a lot of interchange of chord sounds. For example, E can imply E5 (Which has no 3rd, neither major nor minor)- but there are a few specific E5 chords specifically called for, at the end of each section, which lends ambiguity. F sometimes appears as Fmaj7 or Fmaj7#11...the minors can be triads or minor 7ths...season to taste.

Chord symbols should be seen as an interpretation of the basic harmony, not as a specific 'code' for a particular chord. These are just a few possibilities that I like to use; experiment with different voicings to suit yourself.

Chord Symbol	Guitar	Mandolin
E	079900 (E5) / 076400	4220 (E5)
G	3x0033 / 3x4400 (Gmaj7)	0000 (G6/9)
C	320033 (Cadd9)	5555 (C6/9)
F	1x3200 (Fmaj7#11)	5300 (Fmaj 7)
Am7	5x5500 (Am9)	2200 (A5)
Bm7	7x7700 (Bm9)	4400 (Bm7 11)
Cmaj7	8x9900	5500 (C6)
A/B	7x7650	4245
B7+9 (B7#9)	7677xx	875x
E5	022400	4220
D/C	8x777x	5455
Csus2	335533	555x
F#m7	2x2200 (F#m7 /11)	6400
B7	224222 (B7 9)	2122