The Ukulele Songbook: Irish Songs & Ballads

By Thomas Balinger

Thomas Balinger The Ukulele Songbook Irish Songs & Ballads Ireland is not just one of the most beautiful places on earth, it also has some of the most beautiful songs, too. From the lyrical beauty of The last rose of summer and The mountains of Mourne to the vociferous humor of Finnegan's Wake -there are a lot of musical treasures to discover. Here you'll find a collection of Irish songs and ballads loved and played all over the world, arranged for Ukulele in standard C tuning (C-G-E-A). As these songs stem from a long and rich musical tradition there are lots of variants of music and/or text. Since this book is written with the beginning to intermediate player in mind, the songs have been arranged for easy playability.To further facilitate playing and singing, there are chord symbols , melody TAB and lyrics. There's also a section on tuning your Ukulele, the basic Ukulele chords and some easy basic strumming and picking patterns you can use to play these (and other) songs. Songs 1. A bunch of thyme 2. All for me grog 3. Banna Strand 4. Boolavogue 5. Botany Bay 6. Brennan on the moor 7. Carrickfergus 8. Courtin' in the kitchen 9. Danny Boy 10. Dicey Riley 11. Down by the Glenside 12. Do you want your old lobby washed down? 13. Fiddler's Green 14. Finnegan's Wake 15. I'll tell me Ma 16. I never will marry 17. I once loved a lass 18. James Connolly 19. Molly Malone 20. Never wed an old man 21. New York girls 22. Old Maid in a garret 23. Poor Paddy works on the railroad 24. Reilly's daughter 25. She moved through the fair 26. Skibbereen 27. Spancil Hill 28. Swallow tail jig 29. The auld orange flute 30. The Bard of Armagh 31. The black velvet band 32. The cliffs of Dooneen 33. The flower of sweet Strabane 34. The foggy dew 35. The hills of Connemara 36. The hills of Kerry 37. The humour is on me now 38. The jolly beggarman 39. The last rose of summer 40. The Lowlands low 41. The mermaid 42. The merry ploughboy 43. The Minstrel Boy 44. The moonshiner 45. The mountains of Mourne 46. The nightingale 47. The rising of the moon 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 wild rover 54. Three drunken maidens 55. Three score and ten 56. Waxies Dargle 57. Whiskey in the jar

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1541355814
• ISBN13: 9781541355811
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 126 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.3" x 8.5"