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Thread #128882   Message #3942043
Posted By: leeneia
06-Aug-18 - 01:26 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Carrick? / Carrig River (Nolan/McGrath)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Carrick? / Carrig River (Nolan/McGrath)
I decided to transcribe this song, thinking it would be easy. NOT! I started by listening to the MacMurray version on YouTube. They do it in 4/4. Listen to the accompaniment, and you can clearly hear it playing a "four" pattern. And it was in some hard key or other.

So I went to the Michael Londra recording. It was still in a hard key _ E, which is not really so bad. But it's in 3/4 time, which went much more smoothly for me. I've written it down and changed it to D for easier playing. If any trusted Mudcatters want the sheet music, PM me.

It's a lovely tune, but it has many measures with a half note on one chord and a third beat which doesn't go. I suggest letting the acc. die away when the third beat comes along, otherwise you have a lot of busy chord changes which don't seem to go with the languid melody.

There's also a video of men fishing where you can see what the Carric River is like today.