Liam Ward
Oct 24, 20232 min
Hello! In today's harmonica lesson we'll be playing the Irish folk song 'Fields of Athenry' on a diatonic harmonica in the key of C. Follow the tabs on the screen to play along!
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The song is tabbed out for diatonic harmonica (in any key). The symbols I use are pretty basic - positive numbers are blow, negative numbers are draw.
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By a lonely prison wall
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I heard a young girl ca-a-a-a-lling
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Michael they are taking you away
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For you stole Trevelyn's corn
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So the young might se-e the morn
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Now a prison ship lies waiting in the bay
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Low lie the Fields of Athenry
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Where once we watched the small free birds fly
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Our love was o-n the wing, we had dreams and so-ngs to sing
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It's so lonely 'round the Fields of Athenry
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