Sheet music for "the banks of claudy"

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I’m looking for sheet music for the banks of claudy. I’ve looked on all the sights that I know of with no luck. Does anyone know where I can find it?

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I guess I should add the sights that I’ve already looked on, they are:
tinwhistler.com
whistle and squeak
Chris Peterson’s Trad Music
Whistle this
Chiff and Fipple Song of the month Archives

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From JC Tunefinder:



X: 1
T: “The Banks Of Claudy” (air) 0430
C:after Sg’t. J. O’Neill
C:slow , with feeling
N:Transposed from F
Q:1/4=70
I:abc2nwc
B:O’Neill’s Music Of Ireland (The 1850) Lyon & Healy, Chicago, 1903 edition
Z:FROM O’NEILL’S TO NOTEWORTHY, FROM NOTEWORTHY TO ABC, MIDI AND .TXT BY VINCE BRENNAN June 2003 (HTTP://WWW.SOSYOURMOM.COM)
M:C
L:1/8
F:http://jc.tzo.net/~jc/music/abc/mirror/sosyourmom.com/Abc-0401-0500/0430-BanksClaudy.abc 2007-02-01 19:36:40 UT
K:G
(gf)|(e3{fe}d) (e2EF)|(~G2G).B d2(ed)|B2(AG/2F/2) E2E2|E6(GA)|
(Bc/2B/2 AB) (e2f2)|(g3e) (f2ed)|B2(c/2B/2A) B2^d2|e6(GA)|
(Bc/2B/2 AB) (e2f2)|(g3e) g{ag}f e{fe}d|B2A2B.e .^d.f|e6(gf)|
(e3{fe}d) (e2EF)|(~G2G).B d2(ed)|B2(AG/2F/2) E2E2|E6|]

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That seems to be a different arrangement than I was thinking. I didn’t even know that there was more than one. The one that I am thinking of I’ve heard performed by Loreena McKennitt and Will Millar, and it sounds very different from this one. Thanks all the same though!

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Click on “(New, improved!) search” and enter the tune name here:

http://www2.redhawk.org:8080/irish/index.pl

I’m don’t know if this version is different from cquick’s offering above or simply in another key.

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Yes, it is still the same one. Thanks for trying though! I will just have to learn it by ear.

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Is it a song? Try searching for an english ‘broken token’ song called Claudy Banks.

If it’s this one, its a song from the Copper Family’s repertoire.

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I do believe that those are the lyrics that Loreena Mckennitt sings. I’d have to look to be sure. Guess it would help if I got the name right next time. However, Will Millar plays this and calls it “The banks of Claudy”. Oh well… Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!

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I just got one of Bob Copper’s books out of the library, and it has the Copper family’s setting. (7 generations of Coppers are known to have sung this song; they’re everyone’s ultimate source for these songs).

If you PM me with an email address you can recieve an attachment, I’ll scan the page and send it your way.