Be Thou My Vision

waltz

Key signature: Gmajor

Submitted on November 24th 2006 by nicholas.

This tune has been added to 50 tunebooks.

Also known as The Banks Of The Bann, Slane.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• Bang On by Oige
• Just Me And A Fiddle by The Flyin' Fiddler Wayne Cantwell
• Miles From Dublin by Dan Carollo
• Music From The Edge Of The World by Cran
• Starkindler by Michael Card
• The Kells by The Kells

X: 1
T: Be Thou My Vision
M: 3/4
L: 1/8
R: waltz
K: Gmaj
D2|G2 G2 AG|E2 D2 DE|G2 G2 A2|B4 dB|
A2 A2 A2|A2 B2 d2|e2 d2 B2|d4 d2|
e2 ef gf|e2 d2 B2|d2 G2 F2|E4 D2|
G2 B2 d2|ed B2 GB|A2 G2 G2|G4 ||

Be Thou My Vision / Slane

I put this in as an answer to a request. It is used as a hymn tune, and like many such is called both by its opening words and by the name of a place associated maybe with its composition or use, or history that inspired it. The tune is said to be an Irish folk tune, deriving the title "Slane" from the association of Slane Hill, Co. Meath, with St. Patrick.
The tune, with an altered ending, also carries the song "The Banks Of The Bann"; the last four bars of this version go:

|G3 B AG|E2 D2 DE|G3 B AF|G4 ||

# Posted on November 24th 2006 by nicholas

Be Thou My Vision

key of C, but we like the G7

Dallan Forgaill c. 700
Tr. Mary E Byrne
Ancient Irish Hymn (Slane)

# Posted on November 9th 2007 by Anniem

Thanks

I used this tune years ago with my middle school choir and began to wonder about it's origin. So many tunes have a simple annotation of "Irish Folk tune." Thanks for the additional information.

Brent

# Posted on January 7th 2008 by bknjholl