Thomas Balinger
Harmonica Songbook
Irish Songs & Ballads
A collection of Irish Songs & Ballads, arranged for easy Blues Harp (10-channel diatonic harp, system Richter) in C. You’ll find the “classicsâ€, but you’ll also encounter songs not as common and maybe even some you might never have heard before.
This book is aimed at the beginning to intermediate player. The songs have been transposed and arranged for easy playing – you can play all of them without having to master advanced playing techniques like bending and overblowing first. Whether you’re a complete beginner or have been playing for some time: these songs you can play right away.
All songs feature additional harmonica tablature. This system of graphical notation tells you exactly what to play, making it ideally suited for beginners and players who don’t read standard notation.
Plus chord symbols and guitar chord diagrams. If you happen to have any guitar playing friend(s), you can start playing these songs together right away!
Songs
1. Boolavogue
2. Botany Bay
3. Brennan on the moor
4. Carrickfergus
5. Courtin’ in the kitchen
6. Dicey Riley
7. Down by the Glenside
8. Fiddler’s Green
9. Finnegan’s Wake
10. I’ll tell me Ma
11. I never will marry
12. I once loved a lass
13. James Connolly
14. Molly Malone
15. Never wed an old man
16. New York girls
17. Old Maid in a garret
18. Poor Paddy works on the railway
19. Reilly’s daughter
20. She moved through the fair
21. Skibbereen
22. Spancil Hill
23. Swallow tail jig
24. The auld orange flute
25. The Bard of Armagh
26. The cliffs of Dooneen
27. The flower of sweet Strabane
28. The foggy dew
29. The hills of Connemara
30. The humour is on me now
31. The jolly beggarman
32. The last rose of summer
33. The Lowlands low
34. The mermaid
35. The merry ploughboy
36. The Minstrel Boy
37. The moonshiner
38. The mountains of Mourne
39. The nightingale
40. The rising of the moon
41. The rose of Mooncoin
42. The Sally Gardens
43. The snowy-breasted pearl
44. The Spanish lady
45. The star of the county down
46. The wild rover
47. Three drunken maidens
48. Three score and ten
49. Waxies Dargle
50. Whiskey in the jar