Thanks to everyone for welcoming me to this site. It looks like it will be a lot of fun. Please let me know if anyone has TAB for "Green Grow the Lilacs" (or Laurels) in a DAD tuning, maybe with a ha…

[Jo Brocklehurst]

Thanks to everyone for welcoming me to this site. It looks like it will be a lot of fun.

Please let me know if anyone has TAB for "Green Grow the Lilacs" (or Laurels) in a DAD tuning, maybe with a harmony part? That would be terrific!

[John Hockett]

Jo, I have a DAD version you may have, no charge. It's from my Civil War book.  You may not find it what you want as it the version popular in the Mexican war era, not a later one.  It can serve as basis for your own arrangement. Send you email address to me at [e-mail] and I will attache it to the reply.

[Paul Certo]

Any notes listed in the DAA/155 tab for frets 0,1, & 2 are unavailable on the melody string in the DAD/158 tuning. You will need to play these notes on thew middle string, but don't subtract 3 from them in this case. Play these notes as written. Another, perhaps better, alternative is to lower the melody string to A, and play the tab as written. Never resist learning something new. Learning another tuning opens up new possibilities, as there are a lot of tabs written for the DAA/155 tuning. If you play with a noter, this is your best alternative, as using the noter on the middle string for these notes is pretty difficult. If you don't use a noter, you can play the DAA tab on the middle string, and let the melody string drone. 

But try to embrace a few tunings, as they do open up a lot of possibilities for us as players.

Paul

[folkfan]

Jo,  Here's another version of the song.  This time it's the Lilacs to the red white and blue version.  Tab is good again for DAA.   I haven't found a tab for it in DAd, sorry.

http://sniff.numachi.com/lookup.cgi?ds1=C&ds2=C&ds3=F&t...

And as for the other tab, I laughed when I read John P's comment as I realized I automatically gave you a tune that had the words as I sing them.  I use the older words which according to various sources are from Ireland, or Scotland.  My only recorded version of this lovely old song is done by a Scotsman. 

Thanks for reminding me of it as I haven't played it in years.  Got to put it back on my active or semi active list. 

[R N Lackey]

Like John & Robin I mainly play by ear.  I recorded a video of if, but I think I played it in DAA.  It just seemed to "fit" the tune.

[john p]

Hi Jo,

First of all welcome, like Robin, I'm an ear player and don't do the TAB thing.

I see ff has found you a link, but is this the version you are looking for.

Green Grows the Laurels is one of those songs that has been through many changes so expect to find a fair amount of variations in what you find. In England and sometimes Ireland it also goes by the name of Once I had a Sweetheart and has a couple of different tunes associated with it.

The part about Laurels is tied up with flower lore. Change the green laurel for the violets so blue means changing grief to joy

I'm guessing the version you're after probably comes from the American/Mexcan wars where the line was changed to red white and blue and means changing the Mexican flag to the American.

john

[folkfan]

Here it is in a tab that can be played in DAA.  To play it in DAd you'd just subtract 3 so any 3 becomes a zero

http://sniff.numachi.com/lookup.cgi?ds1=C&ds2=C&ds3=F&t...

Since this version uses both the 6 and the 6+ fret as it has a naturalized note in it, it would be easier to stay in DAA. The one raised flat in the tune could also be found at the 6+ on the middle string in DAD.

[Robin Thompson]

Just want to welcome you to FOTMD, Jo! I'm a by-ear player so don't keep up much on where tablature can be found for various types of music; perhaps someone will chime in with an idea on how tab for the tune you're looking for can be come-by.