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Tune Req: Billy Boy Newcastle Version not in

14 Mar 00 - 10:36 AM (#194699)
Subject: Billy Boy Newcastle Version not in dt
From: Conrad Bladey (Peasant- Inactive)

Ok now where is it - must be somewhere! The tune for billy boy as in the DT is not the one commonly played in Newcastle- High Level Ranters et. al... does any one have it in either .mid or .abc?

Thanks in advance!

Conrad


14 Mar 00 - 01:46 PM (#194799)
Subject: Tune Add: BILLY BOY
From: Jeri

Conrad, does it go anything like the following? Will happily do a midi and send it to you and the DT if this is right. I haven't heard the High Level Ranters sing it - got this one from Eliza Carthy's Red Rice...

T:BILLY BOY
M:4/4
L:1/4
Q:120
K:EMin
B,EED EFG2|B,CD2 B,CD2|
E2ED EFG2|GABG FAGF|
E6 GA| B2 B2 A2 A2| EFED B,G,A,2
B,EEE D2 B,2| EE EFGEE2


14 Mar 00 - 02:12 PM (#194810)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Billy Boy Newcastle Version not in
From: Conrad Bladey (Peasant- Inactive)

not it I will give it a try from the brain cells shortly....watch this space...

Conrad


14 Mar 00 - 04:41 PM (#194862)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Billy Boy Newcastle Version not in
From: Conrad Bladey (Peasant- Inactive)

My head is not working- cant seem to transcribe it and time is out... Perhaps someone knows it- I found a midi but the part has confused the midi txt progam perhaps someone can get it into .abc here is the midi: Billy Boy click it here!

Many thanks!! Conrad


14 Mar 00 - 05:43 PM (#194898)
Subject: Tune Add: BILLY BOY
From: Snuffy

Conrad

That other was the right notes, but the wrong time signature - here it is in 6/8. That's how my mother's known it since the '20s, and she's from Ryton

MIDI file: BLLYBOY4.MID

Timebase: 96

TimeSig: 6/8 24 8
Key: G
Tempo: 177 (338983 microsec/crotchet)
Name: BILLY BOY
Start
0000 1 71 120 0096 0 71 000 0000 1 72 120 0043 0 72 000 0005 1 74 120 0096 0 74 000 0000 1 74 090 0048 0 74 000 0000 1 72 090 0096 0 72 000 0000 1 71 090 0043 0 71 000 0005 1 69 120 0144 0 69 000 0000 1 71 090 0096 0 71 000 0000 1 69 090 0043 0 69 000 0005 1 67 120 0144 0 67 000 0000 1 69 090 0096 0 69 000 0000 1 66 090 0043 0 66 000 0005 1 67 120 0144 0 67 000 0000 1 71 090 0096 0 71 000 0000 1 72 090 0043 0 72 000 0005 1 74 120 0096 0 74 000 0000 1 74 090 0048 0 74 000 0000 1 73 090 0096 0 73 000 0000 1 74 090 0043 0 74 000 0005 1 76 120 0096 0 76 000 0000 1 74 090 0048 0 74 000 0000 1 73 090 0096 0 73 000 0000 1 74 090 0043 0 74 000 0005 1 69 120 0288 0 69 000 0144 1 74 120 0096 0 74 000 0000 1 74 120 0043 0 74 000 0005 1 76 120 0096 0 76 000 0000 1 74 090 0048 0 74 000 0000 1 76 090 0096 0 76 000 0000 1 78 090 0043 0 78 000 0005 1 79 120 0144 0 79 000 0000 1 78 090 0096 0 78 000 0000 1 76 090 0043 0 76 000 0005 1 74 120 0096 0 74 000 0000 1 71 120 0043 0 71 000 0005 1 72 120 0048 0 72 000 0000 1 71 090 0048 0 71 000 0000 1 69 090 0043 0 69 000 0005 1 67 120 0096 0 67 000 0000 1 66 090 0048 0 66 000 0000 1 64 090 0096 0 64 000 0000 1 62 090 0043 0 62 000 0005 1 67 120 0096 0 67 000 0000 1 67 120 0043 0 67 000 0005 1 71 120 0048 0 71 000 0000 1 69 090 0048 0 69 000 0000 1 67 090 0043 0 67 000 0005 1 71 120 0096 0 71 000 0000 1 72 090 0048 0 72 000 0000 1 74 090 0096 0 74 000 0000 1 76 090 0043 0 76 000 0005 1 71 120 0096 0 71 000 0000 1 67 090 0048 0 67 000 0000 1 69 090 0096 0 69 000 0000 1 66 090 0043 0 66 000 0005 1 67 120 0144 0 67 000
End

This program is worth the effort of learning it.

To download the March 10 MIDItext 98 software and get instructions on how to use it click here

ABC format:

X:1
T:Billy Boy
M:6/8
Q:1/4=177
K:G
B2cd2d|c2BA3|B2AG3|A2FG3|B2cd2d|^c2de2d|^c2dA3|
-A6|d6|-d2de2d|e2fg3|f2ed2B|cBAG2F|E2DG2G|
BAGB2c|d2eB2G|A2FG3||

Wassail! V


14 Mar 00 - 05:52 PM (#194900)
Subject: Tune Add: BILLY BOY
From: Jeri

Conrad, I transcribed it from the MIDI you linked to. Hope you don't mind I also transcribed it D.

T:BILLY BOY
M:2/4
L:1/8
Q:240
K:D
FG|AA GF|E2 FE|D6 FG|
A A/2A/2 AA |BA AF|E4|
E2 AA| BBBc|d2 cB|
AF GE|DC B,A,|DD F/2E/2 D|AA Bd|FD EC|
D2 FG|AA GF|E2 FE|D2 ED|D2 FG|
A A/2A/2 AA| BA AF|E4|E2 AA|BB Bc|d2 cB|
AF GE|DC B,A,|DD F/2E/2 D|AA Bd|FD EC|D2|


14 Mar 00 - 07:22 PM (#194937)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Billy Boy Newcastle Version not in
From: Conrad Bladey (Peasant- Inactive)

Thanks! Out of many one! It was a long battle. Conrad


25 May 04 - 05:41 AM (#1193460)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Billy Boy Newcastle Version not in
From: Mr Happy

The version I learned as a child doesn't appear in the DT either, the one where the chorus goes:

'With me Nancy tickle me fancy,
Oh me charming Billy Boy'

Anyone have verses for this version, please?


26 Aug 09 - 09:06 AM (#2708898)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Billy Boy Newcastle Version not in
From: Mr Happy

Anyone?


26 Aug 09 - 09:18 AM (#2708909)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Billy Boy Newcastle Version not in
From: curmudgeon

It's in The Shanty Book - Part I by Richard R. Terry, now available, in reprint, as "The Way of the Ship" - Tom


26 Aug 09 - 09:50 PM (#2709501)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Billy Boy Newcastle Version not in
From: Gibb Sahib

MrHappy, here's a couple chantey-style versions:

major key Billy Boy

minor key Billy Boy