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Tune 188 - Star of the County Down




Tune for the Irish ballad of the same name but also pops up in for other songs and in different time signatures. It was also the basis for Ralph Vaughan Williams' Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus.

X:449
T:Star of the County Down
M:3/4
L:1/8
K:Em
B2|E4 E2|E3 D E2|G4 G2|A4 GA|B3 A G2|E3 E3|D6-|D2 G2 F2|
E4 E2|E3 D E2|G4 G2|A4 GA|B3 A G2|E4 E2|E6-|E4||
B2|d4 B2|B3 A G2|A4 A2|A4 GA|B3 A G2|E3 E3|D6-|D2 G2 F2|
E4 E2|E3 D E2|G4 G2|A4 GA|B3 A G2|E4 E2|E6-|E4|]

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