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Song Name: Adieu To My Comrades By: George Scroggie
Posted By: Turkey_Man Difficulty: Any
Key: Any Genre: Folk
Harp Type: Diatonic
Created: 2015-04-19 16:17:28 Modified: 2015-04-21 13:37:20


Song:

 

“Farewell to Tarwathie” 

I tinkered with this to make it easier and more fun to play.
So if you are a traditionalist play line one (-6 6 6 -6) and lines two and four (-3' 3 3 -3) as -3'' 3 3 -3''.

 

4   5   4  4  -6   6    6    -6    4   -4   5   

A-dieu to my com-rades for awhile we must part 

 4    5    4   4   -3’ 3    3    -3  4  -4   4 

And like-wise the las-sie who’s sto-len my heart

5-4   4    5   6    -6   6    5   -4  4 -4   5   

I’m bound off for Green-land and read-y to sail

4-4  5    4   4   -3’  3   3   -3   4   -4   4

In hopes to find rich-es from hunt-ing the whale

  

Our ship she’s well rig-ged and re-ady to sail 

Our crew they are an-xious to fol-low the whale

Where the ice-bergs do float and the storm-y winds blow

Where the land and the o-cean is cov-er’d with snow

  

The cold land of green-land is bar-ren and bare

No seed time or har-vest is e-ver known there

The birds here sing sweet-ly on moun-tain and dale

But there is nae a bird to sing to the whale