Lake School of Celtic Music, Song and Dance
Slow Session
Sheet Music with Chords
Prepared by Mark J. and Lisa B. McDonnell
Important Note:
Sheet music should be viewed only as a guide as to how the actual tunes are played at sessions. Because Celtic
traditional music comes from an aural tradition, the actual notes, chords and rhythm may vary depending on
who is playing and where it is being played.
We would like to thank Connor Hickey for his assistance in editing the sheet music.
Additional information about Lake School: http://lakeschool.bushwahzee.com/
Additional resources to learn to play Celtic music: http://irishsession.net
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Lake School Slow Session Tune List 2019
Beginner Sessions 1. 100 Pipers 2. Boys of Blue Hill 3. Come by the Hills (Buachaill on Eirne) 4. Fanny Power 5. Finnigan’s Wake 6. Inisheer 7. Kesh Jig 8. Maggie in the Wood 9. Margaret’s Waltz 10. Marie’s Wedding 11. Molly Malone 12. Murphy’s Polka 13. Off To California 14. Out on the Ocean (Portroe Jig) 15. Rakes of Kildare 16. Rakes of Mallow 17. Roddy McCauley 18. Sheebeg Sheemore 19. Shoe the Donkey ("Versavanna") 20. Skye Boat Song 21. Sonny Brogan's Mazurka 22. South Wind 23. Star of the County Down 24. Sweeney’s Polka 25. Tell My Ma 26. The Blackthorn Stick 27. The Rose Tree 28. Waltzing Matilda 29. Whistling Gypsy Rover 30. Wild Rover
Intermediate Session
1. Blarney Pilgrim 2. Dingle Regatta 3. Draught of Ale (Saddle the Pony) 4. Father Kelly’s No. 1 (Rossmore Jetty) 5. Forty Pound Float 6. Geese on the Bog 7. Humours of Tulla 8. King of the Fairies 9. Merrily Kiss the Quakers Wife 10. Merry Blacksmith 11. Piper’s Weird 12. Primrose Lass 13. Shannon Breeze 14. Silver Spear 15. Spootishkerry 16. The Butterfly 17. The Concertina Reel 18. The Rights of Man 19. Tripping Up the Stairs 20. Ward’s Jig 21. West Clare Jig
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Blarney Pilgram
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Boys of Bluehill
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Draught of Ale (Saddle the Pony)
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Fanny Powers
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Finnigan's Wake
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Geese on the Bog
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Humours of Tulla
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Kesh Jig
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King of the Fairies
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Maggie in the Wood
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Marie's Wedding (in G)
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Merrily Kiss the Quakers Wife
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Merry Blacksmith
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In Dublin's fair cityWhere the girls are so prettyI first set my eyes on sweet Molly MaloneAs she wheeled her wheelbarrowThrough the streets broad and narrowCrying "cockles and mussels, alive, alive, oh“
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Chorus:Alive, alive, ohAlive, alive, ohCrying "cockles and mussels, alive, alive, oh"
She was a fishmongerAnd sure, t'was no wonderFor so were her mother and father beforeAnd they wheeled their barrowThrough the streets broad and narrowCrying "cockles and mussels, alive, alive, oh”
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She died of a feverAnd sure, so one could save herAnd that was the end of sweet Molly MaloneNow her ghost wheels her barrowThrough streets broad and narrowCrying “cockles and mussels, alive, alive, oh”
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Murphy's Polka
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Off to California
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Rakes of Kildare
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Rakes of Mallow
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The Rights of Man
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The Rose Tree
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Sheebeg Sheemor
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Shoe the Donkey Mazurka
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Silver Spear
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Skye Boat Song
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Sonny Brogan's Mazurka
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South Wind
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Star of the County Down (G)
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Sweeney's Polka
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Tell My Ma
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I'll tell my ma when I get home,
The boys won't leave the girls alone
They pull my hair and stole my comb
But that's all right till I go home
She is handsome, she is pretty,
She is the Belle of Belfast city
She is a courtin' one, two, three,
Please won't you tell me who is she
Albert Mooney says he loves her,
All the boys are fightin' for her
Knock at the door and ring at the bell,
Saying oh my true love, are you well
Out she comes as white as snow,
Rings on her fingers, bells on her toes
Old Johnny Morrissey says she'll die
If she doesn't get the fella with the roving eye
Let the wind and the rain and the hail blow high
And the snow come travellin' through the sky
She's as sweet as apple pie,
She'll get her own lad by and by
When she gets a lad of her own
She won't tell her ma when she gets home
Let them all come as they will
For it's Albert Mooney she loves still
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Tripping up the Stairs
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Wards Jig
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West Clare Jig
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CHORUS
The gypsy rover came over the hill, down through the valley so shady, He
whistled and he sang ‘til the greenwoods rang, and he won the heart of a la---dy.
He whistled and he sang ‘til the greenwoods rang,
and he won the heart of a la-----dy.
Ah- de -do, ah-de-
do- da- day, ah- de- do, ah-de- -da-ay.
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Whistling Gypsy Rover (Leo Maguire)
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He whistled and he sang ‘til the greenwoods rang, and he won the heart of a la-day
CHORUS: G C G G G D Ah-de-do, ah-de-do-da-day, ah-de-do, ah-de-da-ay
G D D G C G C G He whistled and he sang ‘til the greenwoods rang, and he won the heart of a la-day
She left her father’s castle gates, she left her own fine lover She left her servants and her state to follow the gypsy rover.
CHORUS
Her father saddled up his fastest steed and roamed the valleys all over Sought his daughter at great speed and the whistling gypsy rover.
CHORUS
He came at last to a mansion fine, down by the river Claydee And there was music and there was wine, for the gypsy and his lady.
Chorus
“He is no gypsy, my father” she said, “ but lord of these lands all over, And I shall stay “til my dying day with my whistling gypsy rover.”
CHORUS
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