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Thread #83935   Message #1546383
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
20-Aug-05 - 10:29 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Waterloo vs. Lonely Waterloo
Subject: Tune Add: WATERLOO (from Kenneth Peacock)
Well, I must say you're doing extremely well to manage that site without a computer. I only nag because your site is the major resource for Newfoundland material online, and that makes you a de facto authority even if you didn't intend to be!

Here is the tune for Peacock's example A. The key-signature is (notionally) C, but the scale is apparently a-c-c#-d-e-f-g. I'm afraid that my limited musical knowledge doesn't run to identifying that (today at any rate), so I've had to specify "C" in the abc key header. Sorry about that, chaps.


X:1
T:Waterloo
S:Mrs Charlotte Decker, Parson's Pond. August 1959
B:Peacock, Songs of the Newfoundland Outports, 1965. III, 1020-21
N:PEA 157 no. 1015. Roud 1921. Laws J2.
L:1/8
Q:1/4=100
M:2/2
K:C
F G|A2 G2 (Ad) (dc)|(A3G) E2 F G|(AG) (GF) D3 C|
w:It was on one Mon_day_ morn_ing in that love_ly_ month of
D6 (FG)|A2 A2 d2 e2|f2 (fd) e2 ((3f/g/f/e)|
w:June, I_ went forth to con-vince my_ love all___
(dc) A2 (^cd) (ec)|d6 F G|A2 A2 d2 e2|
w:in_ her youth_ful_ bloom. But the press-gang lay in
(f/g/f d2) e2 (fe)|((3d/e/d/c) A2 (^cd) (ec)|d6 D F|
w:am___bush and_ up___ to me_ they_ drew, And the
A2 G2 (Ad) (dc)|A3 G E2 (FG)|A2 (GF) D3 C|D6|]
w:very next day_ we_ marched a-way to_ fight at_ Wa-ter-loo.