Key signature: Cmajor
Submitted on December 16th 2008 by Barry Pearce.
This tune has been added to 10 tunebooks.
Also known as Lovely Nymph.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Lovely Nymph, The
M: 3/4
L: 1/8
R: waltz
K: Cmaj
EF GE DC | G4 AB | c2 B2 A2 | GE C2 (3CDE | F2 E2 c2 |
[1 A4 G2 | FE D2 C2 | D6 :|2 A3 G F2 | ED C2 B,2 | C4 z2||
c3 d e2 | e2 d2 c2 | G2 E2 (3EFG | A4 Bc |
C4 D2 | E2 G2 c2 | ed c2 d2 | G4 z F |
EF GE DC | G4 AB | c2 B2 A2 | GE C2 (3CDE |
F2 E2 c2 | A3 G F2 | ED C2 B,2 | C4 z2||
Notes
I learnt this from the Boldwood album 'Feet Don't Fail Me Now'. Richard Heacock (recently left Boldwood) has been a significant influence and given heaps of help and encouragement. In fact Richard suggested I learn this tune some months ago so we could play it at session together.
The tune itself English traditional and was collected by the Boldwood accordian player Becky Price. It is from unpublished manuscripts in the Vaughan Williams Library, Cecil Sharp House, London.
I transcribed this so I could learn it and it is a great tune.
It can also be played in G rather than C (which pleases melodeon D/G peeps!) - on the fiddle its a simple case of move everything up one string and use your pinky for the top B!
# Posted on December 16th 2008 by Barry Pearce
Shifting it up a step to D works too...
# Posted on December 20th 2008 by ceolachan