Has anyone got the .pdf dots for this?
Thanks.
This one comes up now and again. I’m personally not of much help. I’m prone to sing and play guitar on this one rather than play whistle. Here’s a couple posts from the past on the same question.
https://forums.chiffandfipple.com/t/ok-here-is-me-playing-my-homemade-low-d-and-my-high-d/44578/1
https://forums.chiffandfipple.com/t/welcome-poor-paddy-home/42599/1
If you want the chords and melody, they can be had from the usual folk song archives like Mudcat.
Feadoggie
In fact, there’s a good ABC transcription on Mudcat, here:
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=1306
And here’s the setting from Dervish, Harmony Hill:
X:1
T:Welcome Poor Paddy Home
S:Dervish: Harmony Hill - 07 - Welcome Poor Paddy Home
N:Original key: A Major
Z:MTGuru for C&F, 2010-08-19
M:3/4
K:D
"Intro"FA|d4 f2|e2 d2 c2|B2 c2 d2|D4 E2|F2 A2 F2|E2 D2 ^C2|D6-|D4 FA|
d4 f2|e2 d2 c2|B2 c2 d2|D4 E2|F2 A2 F2|E4 D2|D6-|D4|]
"Verse and Chorus"DE|F4 F2|E4 E2|D6-|D4 A2|d2 d2 f2|e2 d2 A2|B6|{cB}A4 FA|
d2 d2 f2|e2 d2 c2|B2 c2 d2|D2 z2 D2|F2 A2 F2|E2 F2 E2|D6-|D4|]
Thanks to everyone! I got the dots from LisaD. (Thanks again Lisa).
I searched Chiff and Fipple, The Session, Mudcat, Wandering Whistler, Eskin’s fantastically generous FREE downloadable tune book, The Fiddlers’ Fake Book, L.E. McCullough, Jean Lewis’ Joanie Madden Tunebook, Comhaltas, Whistle This, Sandy Jasper’s tune book, and others, but could only find ABC notations, or nothing, usually nothing. As for ABC, I do an abc version I developed myself before I even knew ABC existed. I use it in a little black book to remind me of the first bar or two of tunes. I don’t do the classical ABC due to an aversion to the dreaded learning curve - any learning curve, except playing the flute and whistle. Or eating, and sex.
Nor do I admire “learning by ear”, though several of my tunes did come to me “out of thin air” through an apparently mystical process I choose not to explore, (see “learning curve” above). Anyway, having suffered several ear playing people rendering(!) several versions of what they insist is the same tune all at once I’m not impressed with “learning by ear”. I prefer the classical, written version if there is such a thing and play solo if there isn’t. That’s one of the reasons I taught myself to read music in the first place. Fortunately, I’m a home flute and whistling hobbyist so these whistle world idealogical clashes don’t enter my domain much except for one friend who insists on ‘harmonizing’ with tunes I play when he doesn’t know them. This sends our cat and my wife into paroxyms and my sphincter into rictus.
So, dots for me please; no ABC; no ear ‘oles.
And thanks yet again, Lisa. Apparently you’re the only currently discovered dot supplier for this tune. May you dot on for ever …
K.
But Keith … ABC is the dots, and the dots are ABC. They are one and the same (isomorphic). Plug an ABC transcription into the Concertina.net converter, and generate a nice PDF file. Exactly as you requested. 
Probably too much of a learning curve there as well.
MTG and Mr Gumby, you’re both right of course. Even if I’d remembered the Converter fingy I doubt I would have gone there.
Sob.
My name is Keith and I am a Technophobic.*
There, I’ve said it …
K.
- And a lazy sodde, betimes …
If you really mean what you say, “I prefer the classical, written version…” perhaps you should stick to Bach and stuff…
I sing the song in question, and have never heard two different versions the same, different twists to the tune, different words, etc. I doubt seriously that the song got written down until long after it had been out and about in public. And that is what makes it fun!