From the session website https://thesession.org/tunes/2618 X: 1 T: If I Was A Blackbird R: waltz M: 3/4 L: 1/8 K: Dmaj z D |:B4 ^AB |D2 G2 A2 |B e3 d2 |A4 Dd | d2 c2 d2 |e2 =c2 A2 |D =c3 B2 |A4 DD | B3 ^A B2 |D2 G2 A2 |B e3 d2 |A4 DD | d3 c d2 |e2 =c2 A2 |D2 B2 A2 |G4 D2 :| comment from Guernsey Pete https://thesession.org/members/6734 This song is TRAD, ie a folk-song, collected originally in Dorset, amongst other places. I haven't tried to play the tune yet to check, but, with slight variations in melody, it was a big hit in GB in the '50's for Ronnie Ronalde, a music-hall entertainer who specialised in whistling as well as singing, and who ended his days running his own hotel on my native Guernsey.
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