G'day,I did promise to put down the tune I remembered for Suvla Bay, but I kept straying into other tunes – not to mention Bill Scott's tune for Suda Bay- whenever I tried to transcribe it. I looked in John Meredith's authoritative Folk Songs of Australia and the men and women who sang them - and, in vol. 2, I found the Kurtz Family, of Gulgong, version of Suvla Bay. This is pretty much the tune I remember, so I have included the MIDItext below.
Les from Hull: Meredith spends some time writing about the débâcle of the second landing, at Suvla Bay ... but doesn't justify Australian interest in it. I think it just rhymes more easily than Gallipoli! I note that there is a third song – a naval one about the sinking of the Jervis Bay. This would also attract Australian attention, since Jervis Bay is in Australia – on the south coast of New South Wales – and is an RAN base, so the ship would be noticed by Australian sailors, even if she were operated by the RN.
He also remarks that the month in the third line of the chorus should be "August", not the "April" I sing (probably because the date of the Gallipoli landing is engraved in stone ... we don't think that this is about another landing entirely). He also remarks that "August" in Bill's Suda Bay song is wrong ... it should me May (Crete, 1941)! It seems we Australians are not terribly good at getting dates right.
MIDI file: suvlabay.mid
Timebase: 240
TimeSig: 3/4 24 8
Tempo: 120 (500000 microsec/crotchet)
Tempo: 109 (545455 microsec/crotchet)
Start
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EndThis program is worth the effort of learning it.
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ABC format:
X:1
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M:3/4
Q:1/4=109
K:C
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-G2A2E2|G6|-G6|c6|-c2d2e2|A6|-A6|d6|-d2c2A2|
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c6|-c2d2d2|A6|-A6|d6|-d2c2A2|B6|-B4G2|e4d2|
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I also noticed an error in my version of Suda Bay (only one rest of the wrong duration) and this is the corrected filed:
MIDI file: Suda_Bay.mid
Timebase: 240
TimeSig: 3/4 24 8
Tempo: 120 (500000 microsec/crotchet)
Tempo: 109 (545455 microsec/crotchet)
Start
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EndThis program is worth the effort of learning it.
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ABC format:
X:1
T:
M:3/4
Q:1/4=109
K:C
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f4f2|e4d2|d2G4|-G4G2|d4^c2|d4e2|c6|-c3EF2|
G4G2|A4G2|E2G4|-G4cd|e4e2|d4c2|A6|-A4e2|f4f2|
e4d2|d2G4|-G4G2|d4^c2|d4e2|c6|-c4G2|A4E2|
G6|-G4c2|d4c2|A6|-A4c2|c4A2|B6|-B4B2|A4E2|
G6|-G4G2|A4E2|G6|-G4c2|d4c2|A6|-A4c2|B4c2|
f6|-f4G2|d4c2|c6|-c2||
Regards,
Bob Bolton